"Hang up your pocketbook" - An easy intervention for the granny syndrome: Grandparents as a risk factor in unintentional pediatric exposures to pharmaceuticals

Journal of the American Osteopathic Association

Volumn 106, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 405-411

  McFee, Robin B ^a,b,c,d   Caraccio, Thomas R ^b  

^a WINTHROP UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Emergistics US Inc   (United States)

^d WINTHROP UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; CARDIOVASCULAR AGENT; CHARCOAL; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE; GLUCOSE; PSYCHOTROPIC AGENT;

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; ADULT; AGED; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CONTROLLED STUDY; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; GRANDPARENT; HUMAN; INTOXICATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POISON CENTER; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RISK FACTOR; UNITED STATES;

ACCIDENTS, HOME; ADULT; AGED; CHILD; CHILD WELFARE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; HUMANS; INFANT; INTERGENERATIONAL RELATIONS; MIDDLE AGED; POISON CONTROL CENTERS; POISONING; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33747515655     PISSN: 00986151     EISSN: 00986151     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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