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. 2023 May 15;218(9):412-414.
doi: 10.5694/mja2.51888. Epub 2023 Mar 20.

The impact on poisonings of up-scheduling of modified release paracetamol to Schedule 3 (pharmacist only medicine)

Rose Cairns  1   2 , Firouzeh Noghrehchi  1 , Nicholas A Buckley  1   2
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The impact on poisonings of up-scheduling of modified release paracetamol to Schedule 3 (pharmacist only medicine)

Rose Cairns et al. Med J Aust. .
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Keywords: Analgesics; Pharmacoepidemiology; Policy, drugs and alcohol; Self-injurious behavior.

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Conflict of interest statement

Rose Cairns holds an untied educational grant from Reckitt; this funder had no role in this study.

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* Reported (points) and predicted (lines) poisonings; dashed vertical line: up‐scheduling of modified release paracetamol on 1 June 2020. † Naproxen, diclofenac, mefenamic acid, aspirin, paracetamol/ibuprofen combinations.
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