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Table 2 Different poison agents among fatal and surviving groups

From: Triage vital signs predict in-hospital mortality among emergency department patients with acute poisoning: a case control study

 

OR (95% CI)

Fatalities (N = 67,%)

Survivors (N = 895,%)

p- value

Paraquat

22.5 (12.4-40.7)

31 (46.3)

33 (3.7)

<0.01

Carbamate

13.7(1.9-99.1)

2 (2.9)

2 (0.2)

0.03

Amphetamine

6.9 (1.2-38.1)

2 (2.9)

4 (0.4)

0.06

Digoxin

4.8 (1.8-12.5)

6 (9.0)

18 (2.0)

<0.01

Methanol

3.4 (0.37-30.6)

1 (1.5)

4 (0.4)

0.30

Opioid

3.0 (0.8-10.5)

3 (4.5)

14 (1.6)

0.11

Organophosphate

1.4 (0.48-4.02)

4 (5.9)

39 (4.3)

0.53

Glyphosate

1.8 (0.4-8.1)

2 (2.9)

15 (1.7)

0.33

Alcohol

1.7 (0.4-7.5)

2 (2.9)

16 (1.8)

0.36

Caustic agents

1.1 (0.5-2.6)

7 (10.4)

83 (9.3)

0.68

CO

0.3 (0.04-1.87)

1 (1.5)

50 (5.6)

0.15

Warfarin

0.3 (0.04-2.1)

1 (1.5)

45 (5.0)

0.37

Hypnotics

0.07 (0.01-0.48)

1 (1.5)

168 (18.8)

<0.01

  1. Abbreviations: OR, odds ration; CO, carbon-monoxide.
  2. All variables were presented with 95% confidence interval (95%CI), number (n), percentage (%), and Chi-square test was used.
  3. The poison agents in the table are in order of odds ratio. Among them, paraquat has the highest OR.
  4. Case fatality means in-hospital mortality.
  5. # In order to present the character of individual poison agents, we excluded the mixed poison agents. Three patients in fatal group and 32 patients in surviving group were excluded in this table.