I knew that obscure audit would come in useful.
Correlated nos of patients seen with hours of sunlight from local met office
data. No direct correlation, coeffecient .6 or something.
But significant trend at start of change in weather.
i.e. if the weather was lousy for 10 days plus, and we got a few days of sun
the numbers dropped back for about 3 days. Similarly at change of good spell
to bad a temporary increase.
Only did 3 months data though, so so many confounding factors that it was a
complete waste of time :-)
EBM my arse. We all *know* that the punters are especially troublesome if
the weather's crap. Or is it my SAD playing up ? :-)
Paul Galloway
-----Original Message-----
From: Katie Law <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
Date: 17 October 1998 09:18
Subject: Re: Personal Y2000 planning - info please
> Declan Fox <[log in to unmask]> writes
>>Nah it rains a lot more here.
>>splosh splosh splosh
>
>Before I get reprimanded for being flippant, a question arising from
>this thread
> Does the weather affect the nos seen in surgeries?
> If so do you get more or less on a rainy day?
>--
>Katie
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