Open AccessToxicoepidemiology of acute poisoning cases in a secondary care hospital in rural South India
Author(s) -
Sivasankaran Ponnusankar,
TH Indu,
Raja Danasekaran
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
journal of postgraduate medicine/journal of postgraduate medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.405
H-Index - 52
eISSN - 0972-2823
pISSN - 0022-3859
DOI - 10.4103/0022-3859.159310
Subject(s) - case fatality rate , incidence (geometry) , medicine , tamil , accidental , population , demography , rural area , mortality rate , environmental health , surgery , linguistics , philosophy , physics , pathology , sociology , acoustics , optics
To ascertain the trend of poisoning cases admitted to the Government District Headquarters Hospital, a secondary care center in Udhagamandalam, Nilgiris District, Tamil Nadu, India, over a five-year period.