Fatal poisoning in Jamaica: A coroner's autopsy study from the University Hospital of the West Indies

Medicine, Science and the Law

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 116-120

  Escoffery, Carlos T ^a   Shirley, Suzanne E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Jamaica)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COCAINE; HERBICIDE; INSECTICIDE; NEUROLEPTIC AGENT; PARAQUAT; PESTICIDE;

ACCIDENT; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AUTOPSY; CARIBBEAN ISLANDS; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CORONER; DEATH; FATALITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INTOXICATION; JAMAICA; MALE; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; MENTAL DISEASE; PATHOLOGY; PRESCRIPTION; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; SUICIDE; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; ARTICLE; BLIGHIA; CAUSE OF DEATH; FRUIT; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; STATISTICS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AUTOPSY; BLIGHIA; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; FRUIT; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; JAMAICA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PESTICIDES; POISONING; SUICIDE;

EID: 2942648372     PISSN: 00258024     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1258/rsmmsl.44.2.116     Document Type: Review

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