The Toxic Exposure Surveillance System (TESS): risk assessment and real-time toxicovigilance across United States poison centers.
Toxicol Appl Pharmacol
; 207(2 Suppl): 604-10, 2005 Sep 01.
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| ID: mdl-16023159
ABSTRACT
The Toxic Exposure Surveillance System (TESS) is a uniform data set of US poison centers cases. Categories of information include the patient, the caller, the exposure, the substance(s), clinical toxicity, treatment, and medical outcome. The TESS database was initiated in 1985, and provides a baseline of more than 36.2 million cases through 2003. The database has been utilized for a number of safety evaluations. Consideration of the strengths and limitations of TESS data must be incorporated into data interpretation. Real-time toxicovigilance was initiated in 2003 with continuous uploading of new cases from all poison centers to a central database. Real-time toxicovigilance utilizing general and specific approaches is systematically run against TESS, further increasing the potential utility of poison center experiences as a means of early identification of potential public health threats.
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Base de dados:
MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Centros de Controle de Intoxicações
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Vigilância da População
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Medição de Risco
Tipo de estudo:
Etiology_studies
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Risk_factors_studies
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Screening_studies
Limite:
Humans
País/Região como assunto:
America do norte
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Toxicol Appl Pharmacol
Ano de publicação:
2005
Tipo de documento:
Article
País de afiliação:
Estados Unidos