KlimaNot—Effects of Climate Change on Emergency and Acute Care: Protocol for a Multicenter, Registry-Based Observational Cohort Study

Kai Heimrath   ¹ , Dr rer nat ;   Mirjam Rupprecht   ^{2, 3} , MSc ;   Madlen Schranz   ^{2, 4} , MSc ;   Timon Klein   ⁵ , MSc ;   Jenny Unterkofler   ⁶ , Dr med ;   Tobias Schilling   ⁷ , Prof Dr Med ;   Jonas Bienzeisler   ⁸ , Dr rer med ;   Miriam Hertwig   ⁹ , MSc ;   Johannah Cramer   ² , MSc ;   Merle Potzauf   ¹⁰ , MSc ;   Thea Laurentius   ¹¹ , Dr med ;   Wiebke Schirrmeister   ¹ , Dr rer nat ;   Cornelius Bollheimer   ¹² , Prof Dr Med ;   Sebastian Sager   ⁵ , Prof Dr ;   Rainer Röhrig   ⁸ , Prof Dr Med ;   Felix Walcher   ¹ , Prof Dr Med

¹ Institute for Public Health in Acute Medicine, Otto-von-Guericke University, Magdeburg, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany

² Department for Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany

³ Emergency and Acute Medicine, Charité – University Medicine, Berlin, Germany

⁴ Institute of Public Health, Charité - University Medicine, Berlin, Germany

⁵ Institute for Mathematical Optimization, Otto-von-Guericke University, Magdeburg, Germany

⁶ Clinic for Anesthesiology, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany

⁷ Department of Interdisciplinary Acute, Emergency, and Intensive Medicine, Klinikum Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany

⁸ Institute for Medical Informatics, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany

⁹ Center for Clinical Acute and Emergency Medicine, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany

¹⁰ Regional Climate Office, German Meteorological Service, Potsdam, Germany

¹¹ University Clinic for Geriatrics, Klinikum Oldenburg, Oldenburg, Germany

¹² Clinic for Geriatrics, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany