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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Feb 1.
Published in final edited form as: Disaster Med Public Health Prep. 2020 Feb;14(1):111–118. doi: 10.1017/dmp.2019.143

TABLE 2.

Total and Percent Change * in Visits from Hurricane Harvey in Metropolitan Dallas—Fort Worth, TX on Daily Emergency Department Visits, March 1, 2017–January 6, 2018

All Excess Visits
Excess Evacuee Vists
Total Change From Baseline
Percent Change from Baseline
Total Change From Baseline
Percent Change from Baseline
Time Post-Event** Estimate 95%CI
Estimate 95%CI
Estimate 95%CI
Estimate 95%CI
Immediate Effect 794 587 959 11.2 8.7 12.7 31.7 29.1 40.2 126.9 124.6 128.7
Cumulative Effect at 1 week post event 5,861 4,778 6,583 10.0 8.9 10.9 247.7 210.8 284.6 112.5 112.7 112.2
Cumulative Effect at 2 week post event 10,152 9,093 10,505 9.2 9.1 9.3 412.1 354.4 469.8 99.0 98.2 110.1
Cumulative Effect at Return to Baseline*** 16,505 14,379 17,208 8.0 6.8 9.3 653.5 571.5 742.3 15.0 29.3 33.1
*

Estimated using Interrupted Time Series analysis specified as segmented with autoregressive errors.

**

Event = August 25, 2017, the date that Hurricane Harvey made landfall in Texas.

***

All visits returned to baseline by 9/21/2017 and Evacuee visits returned to baseline by 9/29/2017.