Deliberate self-poisoning: Experience at a medical unit

Journal of the Pakistan Medical Association

Volumn 58, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 455-457

  Khurram, Muhammad ^a   Mahmood, Najia ^a  

^a RAWALPINDI MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; ANALGESIC AGENT; ANTIALLERGIC AGENT; ANTIEMETIC AGENT; BENZODIAZEPINE; CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; COPPER SULFATE; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; ORGANOPHOSPHATE; TRICYCLIC ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; BENZODIAZEPINE DERIVATIVE; ORGANOPHOSPHORUS COMPOUND;

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; DELIBERATE SELF POISONING; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EMPLOYMENT STATUS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MARRIAGE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; SELF POISONING; SEX DIFFERENCE; SUBSTANCE ABUSE; SUICIDE; URBAN AREA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; INTOXICATION; PAKISTAN; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SUICIDE ATTEMPT;

ADULT; BENZODIAZEPINES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; ORGANOPHOSPHORUS COMPOUNDS; PAKISTAN; POISONING; SUICIDE, ATTEMPTED;

EID: 48249126908     PISSN: 00309982     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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