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Epidemiologia e Serviços de Saúde
versão impressa ISSN 1679-4974versão On-line ISSN 2337-9622
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MAIOR, Marta da Cunha Lobo Souto; OSORIO-DE-CASTRO, Claudia Garcia Serpa e ANDRADE, Carla Lourenço Tavares de. Hospitalizations due to drug poisoning in under-five-year-old children in Brazil, 2003-2012. Epidemiol. Serv. Saúde [online]. 2017, vol.26, n.4, pp.771-782. ISSN 1679-4974. http://dx.doi.org/10.5123/s1679-49742017000400009.
OBJECTIVE:
to describe hospitalizations due to drug poisonings in children under five years old, in Brazil, from 2003 to 2012.
METHODS:
descriptive study, with data from the National Hospital Information System (SIH/SUS); the drugs involved were divided into therapeutic classes, according to the Anatomical Therapeutic Chemical Classification (ATC).
RESULTS:
17,725 hospitalizations were identified, from which 22,395 poisonings were identified, and 75 deaths; the most common therapeutic classes were unspecified drugs (38.0%), antiepileptic/sedative-hypnotics/anti-parkinson drugs (19.8%), systemic antibiotics (13.4%) and non-opioid-analgesics/antipyretics (6.5%), varying among country regions and age groups; in 38.5% of the poisonings it was not possible to correlate therapeutic classes and ATC categories.
CONCLUSION:
the high frequency of unspecified drugs was a limitation; among the specified drugs, the most common were those that act in the central nervous system and those used in pediatric diseases (antibiotics and analgesics).
Palavras-chave : Hospitalization; Poisoning; Pharmaceutical Preparations; Infant; Epidemiology, Descriptive.