Reliability of routine hospital data on poisoning as measures of deliberate self poisoning in adolescents.

Reliability of routine hospital data on poisoning as measures of deliberate self poisoning in adolescents.

STUDY OBJECTIVE The aim was to assess the extent to which routinely collected data on poisoning in adolescents reflected deliberate self poisoning and, in doing, so to assess the accuracy of the diagnostic information on poisoning in the routine hospital abstracts which form the joint data base of Hospital Activity Analysis and the Oxford Record Linkage Study (ORLS). DESIGN A comparison was m...

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...

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...

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