Epidemiological and clinical characteristics of acute poisoning with the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic: a multicenter retrospective study in Jiangsu province, China from 2017 to 2023.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Acute poisoning is a growing challenge to emergency departments (EDs). Our aim is to investigate the recent epidemiological and clinical characteristics of patients with acute poisoning and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the disease pattern.

Methods

This retrospective study included patients with acute poisoning through the medical records from EDs at three tertiary hospitals in Jiangsu Province, China, from January 2017 to April 2023. Their epidemiological and clinical profiles were investigated and analyzed under each category of poisoning. In parallel, the enrolled patients were also divided into the pre-COVID (January 2017-December 2019) and amid-COVID (January 2020-April 2023) groups to derive the differences between them.

Results

For 1,876 pat

SUBMITTER: Wang X 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12466031 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature