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Poison Centre Research

Adults with acute poisoning admitted to a university hospital in Belgium in 2017: cost analysis benchmarked with national data

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Pages 406-413 | Received 06 Apr 2019, Accepted 29 Jul 2019, Published online: 19 Aug 2019

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