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Cost to government health-care services of treating acute self-poisonings in a rural district in Sri Lanka

OBJECTIVE: To estimate the direct financial costs to the Sri Lanka Ministry of Health of treating patients after self-poisoning, particularly from pesticides, in a single district. METHODS: Data on staff, drug, laboratory and other inputs for each patient admitted for self-poisoning were prospective...

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Main Authors:	Kanchana Wickramasinghe (Author), Paul Steele (Author), Andrew Dawson (Author), Dinusha Dharmaratne (Author), Asha Gunawardena (Author), Lalith Senarathna (Author), Dhammika de Siva (Author), Kusal Wijayaweera (Author), Michael Eddleston (Author), Flemming Konradsen (Author)
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Published:	The World Health Organization, 2009-03-01T00:00:00Z.
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