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

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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Main Authors: Eddleston Michael, Sudarshan K, Senthilkumaran M, Reginald K, Karalliedde Lakshman, Senarathna Lalith, Silva Dhammika de, Rezvi Sheriff MH, Buckley Nick A, Gunnell David
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: The World Health Organization 2006-01-01
Series:Bulletin of the World Health Organization
Subjects:
Poisoning/epidemiology
Suicide, Attempted/trends
Referral and consultation
Sri Lanka
Online Access:http://www.scielosp.org/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0042-96862006000400011

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