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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Emerg Med. 2015 Sep 26;49(6):871–877. doi: 10.1016/j.jemermed.2015.06.035

Table 2.

Intentionality for prescription drug poisonings by age category (N = 259,093)

Age Category Total Unintentional
n (%)
Intentional
n (%)
Undetermined
n (%)
18 – 30 60,709* 26,269 (43.27) 20,935 (34.48) 13,505 (22.24)
31 – 40 42,197 18,508 (43.86) 14,490 (34.34) 9,199 (21.80)
41 – 50 56,900 28,257 (49.66) 16,824 (29.57) 11,819 (20.77)
51 – 60 52,548 31,284 (59.53) 11,109 (21.14) 10,154 (19.32)
61 – 70 26,146 18,492 (70.72) 3,368 (12.88) 4,286 (16.39)
71 – 80 12,640 9,537 (75.46) 1,189 (9.41) 1,913 (15.13)
81 – 90 6,886 5,385 (78.21) 665 (9.65) 836 (12.14)
91 – 100 1,046 862 (82.40) 60 (5.72) 124 (11.85)

Estimates are weighted numbers of visits

Percentages are row percentages

Numbers may not add to 100% due to missing data

*

Age category was significantly higher than all other categories

All percentages in category are significantly higher