[Epidemiologic aspects of accidental poisoning in children in Aragón (author's transl)].

Authors have studied epidemiologic aspects of 1,363 cases of accidental poisonings in children on a total of 25,136 cases of accidents that have been observed in Aragon hospitals. The following parameters were included in the protocol: sex (males: 57.6%), age (between 1-3 years: 57.9%), day time (12.00-16.00 hours: 30.8%), year season (spring-summer: 56.5%), week day (monday: 18.0%), poisoning (drugs and domestic products: 65.9%), house place (kitchen: 38.1%) and treatment (ambulatory: 81.7%).