An integrated care pathway improves the management of paracetamol poisoning

0.0002); and acetylcysteine correctly prescribed (44/58 (76%) vs 71/71 (100%), p<0.0001).

Conclusions Implementation of an ICP for paracetamol poisoning significantly improved patient management and helped to standardise inter-professional decision making in this challenging patient group. This is likely to improve patient outcome.

Paracetamol overdose integrated care pathway acetylcysteine mental health overdose poisoning toxicology Footnotes Competing interests None.

Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; externally peer reviewed.