Table of contents
- Preliminary material
- Title and verso pages
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Summary
- Poisoning by pharmaceuticals
- Poisoning by other substances
- Intentional self-harm
- Body section
- 1 Introduction
- Types of substances causing poisoning
- Age groups
- Methods and data sources
- Structure of this report
- 2 Overview
- Age and sex
- Length of stay
- High threat to life
- Place of injury
- Remoteness of usual residence
- 3 Poisoning by pharmaceuticals
- Length of stay
- Type of pharmaceutical
- 4 Poisoning by other substances
- Length of stay
- Type of substance
- 5 Intent
- Intentional self-poisoning
- Unintentional poisoning
- 1 Introduction
- End matter
- Appendixes
- Appendix A: Data issues
- Data sources
- Estimating incident cases
- Poisoning by drugs, medicaments and biological substances
- Length of stay
- Rates
- Classification of remoteness area
- Confidentiality and reliability of data
- Errors, inconsistencies and uncertainties
- Data Quality Statement: National Hospital Morbidity Database
- Appendix B: Additional tables
- Appendix A: Data issues
- Glossary
- References
- List of tables
- List of figures
- List of boxes
- Appendixes