Excess hospital admissions during the July 1995 heat wave in Chicago.

@article{Semenza1999ExcessHA,
  title={Excess hospital admissions during the July 1995 heat wave in Chicago.},
  author={Jan C. Semenza and Jerrell McCullough and W. Dana Flanders and Michael A Mcgeehin and J R Lumpkin},
  journal={American journal of preventive medicine},
  year={1999},
  volume={16 4},
  pages={
          269-77
        },
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:23637679}
}
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