Citation

Song KJ, Shin SD, Cone DC. Clin. Toxicol. (Phila) 2009; 47(8): 818-826.

Affiliation

Department of Emergency Medicine, Seoul National University Boramae Medical Center, Seoul, Republic of Korea.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2009, Informa - Taylor and Francis Group)

DOI

10.1080/15563650903158870

PMID

19640232

Abstract

Background. The association between severity-based incidence of poisoning and socioeconomic status (SES) was investigated. Methods. SES was classified based on the premium level of the National Health Insurance cohort, which are medical aid (MA) population not requiring a premium, five self-employed insured (SEI) population groups, and five employed insured (EI) population groups. The poisoning data sets were obtained from the National Injury Database (2001-2003) of Korea. Severity-based standardized incidence rates (SIRs) were calculated using an excess mortality ratio-adjusted injury severity score (EMR-ISS) similar to the new ISS. EMR-ISS was used to categorize poisoning severity as mild (1

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