Climate, Air Quality, and Emergency Department Use in Northern Germany: Protocol for a Multicenter Register Study

Tobias Jagomast   ^{1 *} , MD ;   Marie Raddatz   ^{1 *} ;   Loana Penner   ² , MD ;   Mareike Lüthgen   ¹ , MD ;   Patrick Ristau   ³ , PhD ;   Wolfgang Dersch   ⁴ , MD ;   Sönke Wallis   ⁴ , MD ;   Friedhelm Sayk   ⁵ , MD ;   Jörg Metzner   ⁶ , MD ;   Sebastian Wolfrum   ⁷ , MD ;   André Calero Valdez   ⁸ , PhD ;   Andrea Baron   ^{1, 4} , MD ;   Thoralf Kerner   ^{9, 10} , MD ;   Marcin Grzegorzek   ^{11, 12} , PhD ;   Claudia Schmidtke   ¹² , MD ;   Daniel Drömann   ^{1, 13} , MD ;   Henrik Watz   ^{1, 13} , MD ;   Maureen Weckmann   ² , PhD ;   Markus Weckmann   ^{2, 13} , MD ;   Folke Brinkmann   ^{2, 13} , MD ;   Klaas F Franzen   ^{1, 13} , MD

¹ Medical Clinic III, University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Lübeck, Germany

² Department of Pediatrics, University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Lübeck, Germany

³ Faculty of Applied Health Sciences, Deggendorf Institute of Technology, Deggendorf, Germany

⁴ Schön Klinik, Neustadt (Holst.), Germany

⁵ Internal Medicine, DRK Hospital Ratzeburg, Ratzeburg, Germany

⁶ Sana Kliniken Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany

⁷ Emergency Room, University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Lübeck, Germany

⁸ Institute of Multimedia and Interactive Systems, University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany

⁹ Department of Anesthesiology, Intensive Care Medicine, Emergency Medicine, Pain and Palliative Therapy, Asklepios Klinikum Harburg, Hamburg, Germany

¹⁰ Asklepios Campus Hamburg, Asklepios Medical School GmbH, Hamburg, Germany

¹¹ Institute of Medical Informatics, University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany

¹² German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), Lübeck, Germany

¹³ Airway Research Center North, German Center for Lung Research (DZL), Großhansdorf, Germany

*these authors contributed equally