Fatal drug poisonings in a Swedish general population
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Fatal drug poisonings in a Swedish general population
BACKGROUND Pharmaceutical drug poisonings have previously been reported using single sources of information, either hospital data or forensic data, which might not reveal the true incidence. We therefore aimed to estimate the incidence of suspected fatal drug poisonings, defined as poisonings by pharmaceutical agents, by using all relevant case records from various sources in a Swedish populati...
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عنوان ژورنال: BMC Clinical Pharmacology
سال: 2009
ISSN: 1472-6904
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6904-9-7