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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| Формат: | Стаття |
| Мова: | English |
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The World Health Organization
2006-01-01
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| Серія: | Bulletin of the World Health Organization |
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| Онлайн доступ: | http://www.scielosp.org/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0042-96862006000400011 |