BACKGROUND This study investigated the incidence of potentially preventable hospitalisations in the first two years of life among children in the National Health Insurance (NHI) system of Taiwan. It also examined income disparities in potentially preventable hospitalisations across four economic categories: below a government-established poverty line and low-, middle-, and upper-income. Five ma...

This paper is a kind of observations' thesis on the role of psychological treatment of patients of the clinic of acute poisonings. Some proposals of affective treatment of potentially suicidal patients are also presented for doctors and other medical advisors.

background: poisoning is considered an important public health issue. considering the high prevalence of poisonings and the diversity of their ensuing symptoms, this study aimed to investigate the epidemiology of the clinical symptoms of poisoning in children admitted to shahid madani and ta'min ejtema'i hospitals of khorramabad in 2011. methods: in this cross-sectional study, the dat...

Exogenous poisonings are one of the principal accidents involving children and adolescents. The social isolation promoted by COVID-19 pandemic raises concerns about possibility an increase in poisoning among since most cases occur home environments. Therefore, present study evaluated exogenous under ten years age adolescents aged 11 to 20 old through data recorded at Toxicological Information A...

INTRODUCTION Acute corrosive poisonings are caused by ingestion of corrosive chemicals which are most commonly used as household agents. Intoxications with these kind of agents produce numerous and severe post-corrosive complications of the upper gastrointestinal tract. On the other hand, our experience showed that corrosive agents may also cause injuries of the respiratory system, which makes ...

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Being aware of the importance of statistical structure of poisonings for directing of toxicological analyses both in clinical and especially forensic medicine, the study was aimed at finding current incidence of narcotic substances intoxications in the Lower Silesia region of Poland as well as determining any long time trends. Data on causes of hospital admissions because of poisoning by narcot...