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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Formato: | Artigo |
Idioma: | English |
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The World Health Organization
2009-03-01
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coleção: | Bulletin of the World Health Organization |
Acesso em linha: | http://www.scielosp.org/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0042-96862009000300011&lng=en&tlng=en |