Table 2.

Agreement between the Summary of Product Characteristics document and TOXBASE for specific aspects of gut decontamination recommendations

Treatment category	Grade ‘A’	Grade ‘B’	Grade ‘C’
Induced vomiting	201 (77.9%)	1 (0.4%)	56 (21.7%)
Gastric lavage	151 (58.5%)	8 (3.1%)	99 (38.4%)
Oral activated charcoal	25 (9.7%)	85 (32.9%)	148 (57.4%)
Other gut decontamination	243 (94.2%)	0 (0.0%)	15 (5.0%)

Grade ‘A’, minor or no discrepancy; Grade ‘B’, discrepancy of doubtful clinical importance; Grade ‘C’, a potentially hazardous discrepancy (n = 258).