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Table 1 Comparison of age adjusted annual incidence of poisoning based on three different data sets

From: Paediatric poisoning in rural Sri Lanka: an epidemiological study

 

All admissions to primary hospitals only

All admissions to tertiary referral hospital only

All admissions to primary and tertiary referral hospitals

Number of patients

408

38

446

Age adjusted annual incidence of poisoning

58.4 per 100,000

5.4 per 100,000

63.8 per 100,000