The clinical characteristics and outcome between the patients before typhoon and the patients after typhoon.

*Odds ratio.
†Confidence interval.
‡Underlying medical illness: including diabetes mellitus, liver cirrhosis, chronic renal disease, malignancy, autoimmune disease, alcoholism, long-term steroid or immunosuppressive therapy, human immunodeficiency virus infection.
§Intensive care unit.
**Analyzed by student’s t = test.