Cost to government health-care services of treating acute self-poisonings in a rural district in Sri Lanka

OBJECTIVE: To estimate the direct financial costs to the Sri Lanka Ministry of Health of treating patients after self-poisoning, particularly from pesticides, in a single district. METHODS: Data on staff, drug, laboratory and other inputs for each patient admitted for self-poisoning were prospective...

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Principais autores: Kanchana Wickramasinghe, Paul Steele, Andrew Dawson, Dinusha Dharmaratne, Asha Gunawardena, Lalith Senarathna, Dhammika de Siva, Kusal Wijayaweera, Michael Eddleston, Flemming Konradsen
Formato: Artigo
Idioma:English
Publicado em: The World Health Organization 2009-03-01
coleção:Bulletin of the World Health Organization
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