Impact of a poison control center on the length of hospital stay of poisoned patients: retrospective cohort Impacto de um centro de informações toxicológicas na redução do tempo de internação hospitalar de pacientes intoxicados: coorte retrospectiva
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Pharmacist, Amazonas Poison Control Center, Getúlio Vargas University Hospital, Universidade Federal do Amazonas (UFAM), Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil. Pharmacist, Department of Science and Technology, Secretariat of Science and Technology and Strategic Inputs, Ministry of Health, Brasília, Distrito Federal, Brazil. Medical student, Amazonas Poison Control Center, Getúlio Vargas University Hospital, Universidade Federal do Amazonas (UFAM), Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil. MD. Endocrinologist and clinical coordinator of Santa Catarina Poison Control Center, University Hospital, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC), Florianópolis, Santa Catarina, Brazil. MD. Rheumatologist, Rio Grande do Sul Poison Control Center, Fundação Estadual de Produção e Pesquisa em Saúde (FEPPS), State Health Department, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. MD, PhD. Assistant professor and coordinator of Campinas Poison Control Center, Hospital das Clínicas, Universidade Estadual de Campinas (Unicamp), Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil. MD, MSc, PhD. Nephrologist. Director of the Brazilian Cochrane Center and titular professor of Evidence-Based Medicine and Emergency Medicine, Universidade Federal de São Paulo — Escola Paulista de Medicina (Unifesp-EPM), São Paulo, Brazil. ABSTRACT
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