Risk factors for mortality in Asian Taiwanese patients with methanol poisoning
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Risk factors for mortality in Asian Taiwanese patients with methanol poisoning
INTRODUCTION Methanol poisoning continues to be a serious public health issue in Taiwan, but very little work has been done to study the outcomes of methanol toxicity in the Asian population. In this study, we examined the value of multiple clinical variables in predicting mortality after methanol exposure. METHODS We performed a retrospective observational study on patients with acute poison...
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عنوان ژورنال: Therapeutics and Clinical Risk Management
سال: 2014
ISSN: 1178-203X
DOI: 10.2147/tcrm.s51985