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Authors
Vaghefi, Ario Saeid
Bucher, Iris
Senni, Chiara Colesanti
Muccione, Veruska
Ragettli, Martina S.
Mirmashhouri, Abbas
Huggel, Christian
Leippold, Markus
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Funding
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Center for Climate Services
Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung
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Article History
Received: 26 September 2025
Accepted: 17 April 2026
First Online: 28 May 2026
Declarations
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: Data use was approved under contract No. 240448 with the Swiss Federal Statistical Office (BFS) for the project “Costs of Climate Change”. The dataset contains fully anonymized patient records from the medical hospital statistics (1998-2022), with no personally identifiable information. As this study used only de-identified administrative data with no direct or indirect contact with human subjects, formal ethics committee approval was waived based on the guideline of the Ethics Committee of the of University of Zürich. The research was conducted in accordance with the principles of the Declaration of Helsinki and Swiss data protection laws. No individual-level re-identification is/was possible, and all processing was performed on secure systems.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare no competing interests.
