Novel Surveillance Tool Enables Public Health Use of Poison Control Calls

Regional poison control centers (RPC) receive calls about a variety of poisoning exposures. Callers’ symptoms may not otherwise enter traditional public health (PH) surveillance systems. I report a 16-week pilot study of a new tool to enable the RPC to analyze and integrate call data with the PH, to augment ongoing disease surveillance efforts.

Objective

A new tool allowing analysis of poison control center data and integration of that data into public health surveillance efforts is described.