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Impact of Ambient Temperature on Visits to General Practitioners

Impact of Ambient Temperature on Visits to General Practitioners

Status
Active, not recruiting
Phases
Unknown
Study type
Observational
Source
DRKS
Registry ID
DRKS00034093
Enrollment
400000
Registered
2024-06-11
Start date
2024-05-02
Completion date
Unknown
Last updated
2026-02-02

For informational purposes only — not medical advice. Sourced from public registries and may not reflect the latest updates. Terms

Conditions

Use of all ICD-10 codes recorded in our data

Interventions

Group 1: Observational study of all patients whose general practitioner participates in the Supranational Health Service Research Network (SHRN). At practice level, it is being investigated whether an

Sponsors

Institut für Allgemeinmedizin, Universitätsklinikum Schleswig Holstein, Campus Lübeck
Lead Sponsor

Eligibility

Sex/Gender
All

Inclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria: Data analysis of patients who were treated in one of the participating GP practices between 1990 and March 2024.

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion criteria: None

Design outcomes

Primary

MeasureTime frame
(1) Composition of the patient pool for each day (age, gender, public or statutory health insurance, total number of registered chronic diseases) (2) Predictive model of the prevalence of incidents relevant to GP practices (conditioned on the weather, patient's health history, and other, publicly available information)

Countries

Germany

Contacts

Public ContactJost Steinhäuser

Institut für Allgemeinmedizin Universitätsklinikum Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Lübeck

Jost.Steinhaeuser@uksh.de+4945131018001

Outcome results

None listed

Source: DRKS (via WHO ICTRP) · Data processed: Feb 7, 2026