Poison Center Data for Public Health Surveillance: Poison Center and Public Health Perspectives
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Poison Center Data for Public Health Surveillance: Poison Center and Public Health Perspectives
Introduction Since 2008, poisoning has become the leading cause of injury-related death in the United States (US); since 1980, the poisoning-related fatality rate in the US has almost tripled.1 Many poison-related injuries and deaths are reported to regional poison centers (PCs) which receive about 2.4 million reports of human chemical and poison exposures annually.2 Federal, state, and local p...
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عنوان ژورنال: Online Journal of Public Health Informatics
سال: 2013
ISSN: 1947-2579
DOI: 10.5210/ojphi.v5i1.4507