Impact of acetaminophen product labelling changes in Canada on hospital admissions for accidental acetaminophen overdose: a population-based study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Accidental acetaminophen overdoses are associated with substantial morbidity and health care costs. In Canada, updated labelling standards were implemented in October 2009 and September 2016, with the intent of communicating risks of overdose and facilitating product identification and safe use, respectively. Full compliance with the 2016 standards was expected by March 2018. We sought to explore whether these changes affected rates of hospital admission for accidental acetaminophen overdose.

Methods

We conducted a population-based study of hospital admissions for accidental acetaminophen overdose in 9 Canadian provinces and 3 Canadian territories between Apr. 1, 2014, and Mar. 31, 2020. We used interventional autoregressive integrated moving average (ARIMA) model

SUBMITTER: Antoniou T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9028412 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature