Frequency and trends of hospital treated pesticide poisonings in Germany 2000-2014.

Conclusions: This study shows that the decrease of pesticide poisonings in Germany applies to fatal and non-fatal incidents. There seems to be a decrease also in the case fatality ratio which might point to positive preventive effects by reducing the availability of toxic pesticides. Fatal pesticides poisonings prevails in elder men while non-fatal pesticide poisoning more often affects the younger population. These different patterns should be addressed when improving preventive strategies. The discrepancy between the different data bases with respect to fatal poisoning might be explained by intoxications not admitted to a hospital. However, the difference seems rather high and calls for a deeper investigation. The ICD version 10 does not provide codes allowing for pesticide-specific analyzes of poisonings. The new ICD version 11 therefore should be adjusted to the needs of monitoring of pesticide poisonings. PMID: 28860960 [PubMed - in process]
Source: GMS German Medical Science - Category: General Medicine Tags: Ger Med Sci Source Type: research