Elderly Patients With Deliberate Self-Poisoning Treated in an Australian General Hospital

[Deliberate self poisoning. 12-year material form Silkeborg General Hospital].

Deliberate self-poisoning in an Irish county hospital.

BACKGROUND In 1997, 433 people committed suicide in Ireland, one-quarter of whom were less than 24 years of age. AIM To determine demographics, agent choice and source, suicidality and follow-up care of deliberate self-poisoning patients. METHOD Details of 111 patients admitted to one hospital in 1997 following drug overdose were studied retrospectively. Eleven had been accidental ingestion...

General hospital services for deliberate self-poisoning: an expensive road to nowhere?

This study was designed to investigate the clinical and economic aspects of deliberate self-poisoning services in four teaching hospitals in Leeds, Leicester, Manchester and Nottingham. We investigated the management of the current self-harm episode, including direct in-hospital costs, in 456 individuals who presented to hospital on a total of 477 occasions with deliberate self-poisoning during...

Deliberate self poisoning in adolescents

A retrospective study of 90 adolescents admitted to a district general hospital after deliberate drug overdoses was carried out. Underlying risk factors, the inpatient assessment, and the initial management offered to each patient were recorded. The longer term outcomes were assessed, with particular emphasis on psychiatric and related disorders. Many had underlying family problems; the parents...

Deliberate self-poisoning in children.

This prospective study was aimed to analyze the nature of and the factors associated with deliberate self-poisoning in children below the age of 12 years. Children referred to the Child Guidance Clinic for evaluation after recovery from the effects of poisoning during the five-year period between 1999 and 2003 formed the subjects of the study. The children were evaluated for stress factors, psy...