Long-term prognosis of patients with carbon monoxide poisoning: a nationwide cohort study

Carbon monoxide poisoning (COP) often produces severe complications and can be fatal. Because this topic has not been well delineated, we investigated long-term prognoses of patients with COP (COP[+]). In this retrospective nationwide cohort study, 441 COP[+] patients and 8820 COP[-] controls (120)...

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Published in:PloS one 2014-08, Vol.9 (8), p.e105503
Main Authors: Huang, Chien-Cheng, Chung, Min-Hsien, Weng, Shih-Feng, Chien, Chih-Chiang, Lin, Shio-Jean, Lin, Hung-Jung, Guo, How-Ran, Su, Shih-Bin, Hsu, Chien-Chin, Juan, Chi-Wen
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adolescent
Adult
Age Factors
Aged
Aged, 80 and over
Carbon monoxide
Carbon monoxide poisoning
Carbon Monoxide Poisoning - mortality
Child
Child, Preschool
Cohort analysis
Cohort Studies
Complications
Confidence intervals
Databases, Factual
Death
Diabetes mellitus
Emergency medical care
Fatalities
Female
Health care policy
Humans
Hypertension
Incidence
Infant
Infant, Newborn
Inhalation
Male
Medical prognosis
Medicine and Health Sciences
Middle Aged
Mortality
Patients
Physicians
Poisoning
Prognosis
Retrospective Studies
Risk Factors
Sex Factors
Socioeconomic Factors
Taiwan - epidemiology
Young Adult
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Summary:Carbon monoxide poisoning (COP) often produces severe complications and can be fatal. Because this topic has not been well delineated, we investigated long-term prognoses of patients with COP (COP[+]). In this retrospective nationwide cohort study, 441 COP[+] patients and 8820 COP[-] controls (120) from 1999 to 2010 were selected from Taiwan's National Health Insurance Research Database. Thirty-seven (8.39%) COP[+] patients and 142 (1.61%) controls died (P
ISSN:1932-6203
1932-6203
DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0105503