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services interventions</p> <p>(2) Patients’ visit to OHBP-General Hospital Slavonski Brod</p> <p>(3) Environmental Protection Agency data regarding air quality for PM2.5, PM10 and H<sub>2</sub>S per day.</p> <p>The number of interventions ranged from 103 to 260 (M = 151), and the number of patients from 90 to 250 per day (M = 133). Overall the number of interventions was 37,482, and overall number of patients 32,757. The values of PM2.5 ranged from 1.73 to 500.11 µg/m<sup>3</sup> (M = 18.70), values of PM10 ranged from 3.17 to 520.21 µg/m<sup>3</sup> (M = 25.55), and values of H2S ranged from 0.62 to 12.43 µg/m<sup>3</sup> (M = 1.49). 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