Fatal toxicity index of medicinal drugs based on a comprehensive toxicology database

International Journal of Legal Medicine

Volumn 130, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 1209-1216

  Ojanperä, Ilkka ^a   Kriikku, Pirkko ^a   Vuori, Erkki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Drug sales; Fatal poisonings; Forensic toxicology; FTI; Post mortem

Indexed keywords

DRUG;

ACCIDENT; DRUG DATABASE; DRUG UTILIZATION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FINLAND; FORENSIC TOXICOLOGY; HUMAN; INTOXICATION; MORTALITY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; SUICIDE;

ACCIDENTS; DATABASES, PHARMACEUTICAL; DRUG UTILIZATION; FINLAND; FORENSIC TOXICOLOGY; HUMANS; PHARMACEUTICAL PREPARATIONS; POISONING; SUICIDE;

EID: 84961217495     PISSN: 09379827     EISSN: 14371596     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00414-016-1358-8     Document Type: Article

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