Characteristics and outcomes of patients with drug overdose requiring admission to Intensive Care Unit.

CONCLUSION: Personality disorders or schizophrenia were independent predictors of patients with multiple overdose presentations. Preventative strategies focusing on these patients may reduce the incidence of their hospital presentations and ICU admissions. PMID: 28703691 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28703691?dopt=Abstract

Source: Australasian Psychiatry - July 1, 2017 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Athavale V, Green C, Lim KZ, Wong C, Tiruvoipati R Tags: Australas Psychiatry Source Type: research

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