Does restricting pack size of paracetamol (acetaminophen) reduce suicides?
retrospective_cohort · Level III
Where this comes from
- Record sourced from PubMed, PMID 17407389.
- Also identified by PMC identifier 1831716.
- Licence recorded as CC BY.
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Abstract
The authors discuss a new study that examined the change in deaths attributed to paracetamol poisoning in England and Wales in the six years before and after a legislated reduction in the maximum pack size.
Medical subject headings
- Acetaminophen
- Drug Packaging
- Suicide Prevention