Pesticide poisoning surveillance through regional poison control centers.

Can poison control data be used for pharmaceutical poisoning surveillance?

OBJECTIVE To determine the association between the frequencies of pharmaceutical exposures reported to a poison control center (PCC) and those seen in the emergency department (ED). DESIGN A statewide population-based retrospective comparison of frequencies of ED pharmaceutical poisonings with frequencies of pharmaceutical exposures reported to a regional PCC. ED poisonings, identified by Int...

The power of poison: pesticide poisoning of Africa's wildlife.

Poisons have long been used to kill wildlife throughout the world. An evolution has occurred from the use of plant- and animal-based toxins to synthetic pesticides to kill wildlife, a method that is silent, cheap, easy, and effective. The use of pesticides to poison wildlife began in southern Africa, and predator populations were widely targeted and eliminated. A steep increase has recently bee...

NATIONAL Clearinghouse for Poison Control Centers.

The Clearinghouse was originally conceived to coordinate information flow among the then few Poison Control Centers. Services were to be provided through the state health departments where complete control over the individual state's poison centers was to reside. No authority to establish or regulate centers, or to set standards for staffing and operation of centers, or to designate regional ce...

1998 annual report of the American Association of Poison Control Centers Toxic Exposure Surveillance System.

Poison control centers' role in glow product-related outbreak detection: implications for comprehensive surveillance system.

INTRODUCTION The development of syndromic surveillance systems to detect bioterrorist attacks and emerging infectious diseases has become an important and challenging goal to many governmental agencies and healthcare authorities. This study utilized the sharp increase of glow product-related calls to demonstrate the utility of poison control data for early detection of potential outbreaks durin...