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Alternative Title:
NPDS
Corporate Authors:
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.) ; American Association of Poison Control Centers.
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Description:
The American Association of Poison Control Centers (AAPCC) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have combined efforts to help local poison control centers (PCCs) detect chemical exposure events and ensure effective responses. The focus of these efforts is to use the National Poisoning Data System (NPDS) database to improve public health surveillance of chemical exposures and other potential health hazards. Every 4 to 10 minutes, 61 regional poison control centers upload case data to NPDS, which is operated at AAPCC. CDC and AAPCC have developed methods to use NPDS data for real-time automated alerting that will generate more immediate and effective responses to public health threats related to toxins or chemicals in the environment. The NPDS database is a flexible and adaptable system that can be used to

• identify early indicators for chemical exposures occurring at multiple sites throughout the United States;

• identify emerging problems that may be associated with newly introduced household products, pharmaceuticals, or pesticides;

• identify illnesses resulting from intentional or unintentional chemical exposures at a single site or across multiple locations; and

• monitor the frequency of reports involving potentially abused substances.

Operational since 1985, NPDS is the only poisoning surveillance database in the United States, representing 99.8% of all poison exposures reported to poison control centers nationwide. NPDS currently logs 2.2 million poison exposures annually from 61 of the 62 U.S. poison control centers. The cumulative NPDS database contains information about more than 36.2 million human poison exposure cases.

The data fields for NPDS include case information (center, date), call information (exposure site, reason for exposure), caller information (location by zip code, county, state), patient information (age, sex, pregnancy), exposure information (acuity, duration, number of substances, route of exposure, substance, and amount), and information about case management (management site, therapy), medical outcomes, and toxic effects.


Subjects:
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Databases, Factual Data Collection Environmental Exposure Occupational Exposure Poison Control Centers
Document Type:
Pamphlet (or booklet)
Name as Subject:
National Poisoning Data System.
Genre:
Fact Sheet
Place as Subject:
United States
Collection(s):
Stephen B. Thacker CDC Library collection
Main Document Checksum:
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urn:sha256:481736f344653afb570c59ea324285dd50c01421cf93a6e25a027668fa3b55fb
Download URL:
https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/29501/cdc_29501_DS1.pdf
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