Frequency and mortality risk factors of acute adult poisoning in Adana, Turkey, 1997-2002

Mount Sinai Journal of Medicine

Volumn 72, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 393-401

  Seydaoglu, Gulsah ^a   Satar, Salim ^a   Alparslan, Nazan ^a  

^a CUKUROVA UNIVERSITY FACULTY OF MEDICINE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Adult; Mortality; Poisoning; Risk factors

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; BENZODIAZEPINE DERIVATIVE; CARBON MONOXIDE; CARDIOVASCULAR AGENT; CAUSTIC AGENT; DIPYRONE; METHANOL; MUSCLE RELAXANT AGENT; NEUROLEPTIC AGENT; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; ORGANOPHOSPHORUS COMPOUND; PARACETAMOL; PESTICIDE; PSYCHOTROPIC AGENT; SALICYLIC ACID; TRICYCLIC ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CARBON MONOXIDE INTOXICATION; CAUSE OF DEATH; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FATALITY; FEMALE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH SURVEY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INTOXICATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; MUSHROOM POISONING; RISK FACTOR; RISK REDUCTION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SUICIDE ATTEMPT; TURKEY (REPUBLIC);

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CAUSE OF DEATH; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; POISONING; RISK FACTORS; SUICIDE, ATTEMPTED; TURKEY;

EID: 28044466212     PISSN: 00272507     EISSN: 00272507     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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