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Estimated Cost of Sunburn-Associated Visits to US Hospital Emergency Departments

Gery P Guy Jr et al. JAMA Dermatol. 2017.

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Estimated Costs of Sunburn-Associated Visits to Emergency Departments in the United States, 2013 Nationwide Emergency Department Sample Sunburn-associated visits were identified as emergency department visits with a primary or secondary diagnosis of sunburn (International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision, Clinical Modification, codes 692.71, 692.76, and 692.77). Numbers of visits are based on weighted population estimates. Costs are in 2013 US dollars.

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