Patterns of hospital transfer for self-poisoned patients in rural Sri Lanka: implications for estimating the incidence of self-poisoning in the developing world.

OBJECTIVES: Most data on self-poisoning in rural Asia have come from secondary hospitals. We aimed to: assess how transfers from primary to secondary hospitals affected estimates of case-fatality ratio (CFR); determine whether there was referral bias according to gender or poison; and estimate the a...

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Hauptverfasser: Eddleston, Michael, Sudarshan, K., Senthilkumaran, M., Reginald, K., Karalliedde, Lakshman, Senarathna, Lalith, de Silva, Dhammika, Rezvi Sheriff, M. H., Buckley, Nick A., Gunnell, David
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Sprache:Inglês
Veröffentlicht: World Health Organization 2006
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Online Zugang:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1950595/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16628300
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