title: Rainy days for the Society for Pediatric Anesthesia.
abstract: Members of the Society for Pediatric Anesthesia (SPA) perceive the 47% rain rate has burdened its national meetings more than would be expected. We compared weather conditions on the first day of each national SPA meeting since 1987 with historical data using the day, month, and location of each meeting. Using a generalized estimating equations model, the odds ratio of rain comparing meeting and nonmeeting days was 2.63 (P value 0.006, 95% confidence interval 1.32-5.22). These results confirm a significantly higher frequency of rain at national SPA meetings than would be anticipated.
authors.affiliation: Department of Anesthesiology/Critical Care Medicine, The Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Maryland 21287, USA. rgreenbe@jhmi.edu
authors.forename: Robert S
authors.initials: RS
authors.lastname: Greenberg
authors.forename: Melania
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Bembea
authors.forename: Eugenie
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Heitmiller
mesh_terms: D000776:Anesthesiology / Q000458:organization & administration*; D002648:Child; D003226:Congresses as Topic; D006801:Humans; D016017:Odds Ratio; D010372:Pediatrics / Q000458:organization & administration*; D011891:Rain; D012955:Societies, Medical / Q000458:organization & administration*; D014887:Weather