The relative toxicity of medicines detected after poisoning suicide deaths in Australia, 2013-19: a data linkage case series study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To compare the toxicity (relative to population use) and lethality (relative to poisoning events) of medicines involved in poisoning suicides in Australia; to determine the proportions of cases in which the medicines had recently been dispensed to the deceased person.

Study design

Case series study; analysis of linked National Coronial Information System (NCIS) and Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS) data.

Setting, participants

Closed coronial cases for deaths of people aged ten years or older deemed to have been medicine poisoning suicides (including multiple cause deaths), Australia, 1 July 2013 - 10 October 2019, with recorded post mortem toxicology findings.

Main outcome measures

Fatal toxicity index (FTI): deaths per million years of use at the

SUBMITTER: Lim J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12009598 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature