A retrospective descriptive study of the characteristics of deliberate self-poisoning patients with single or repeat presentations to an Australian emergency medicine network in a one year period

Background - A proportion of deliberate self-poisoning (DSP) patients present repeatedly to the emergency department (ED). Understanding the characteristics of frequent DSP patients and their presentation is a first step to implementing interventions that are designed to prevent repeated self-poison...

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Main Authors: Martin, C., Chapman, Rose, Rahman, A., Graudins, A.
Format: Journal Article
Published: BioMed Central Ltd. 2014
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/31678