Journal article
Impact of different pack sizes of paracetamol in the United Kingdom and Ireland on intentional overdoses: a comparative study.
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BACKGROUND: In order to reduce fatal self-poisoning legislation was introduced in the UK in 1998 to restrict pack sizes of paracetamol sold in pharmacies (maximum 32 tablets) and non-pharmacy outlets (maximum 16 tablets), and in Ireland in 2001, but with smaller maximum pack sizes (24 and 12 tablets). Our aim was to determine whether this resulted in smaller overdoses of paracetamol in Ireland compared with the UK. METHODS: We used data on general hospital presentations for non-fatal self-ha...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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National Office for Suicide Prevention
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Bibliographic Details
- Publisher:
- BioMed Central Publisher's website
- Journal:
- BMC public health Journal website
- Volume:
- 11
- Issue:
- 1
- Pages:
- 460
- Publication date:
- 2011-01-01
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1471-2458
- ISSN:
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1471-2458
- Source identifiers:
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168327
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- Language:
- English
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- UUID:
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- Local pid:
- pubs:168327
- Deposit date:
- 2012-12-19
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- Copyright holder:
- Hawton et al
- Copyright date:
- 2011
- Notes:
- © 2011 Hawton et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
- Licence:
- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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