The Toxic Exposure Surveillance System (TESS): Risk assessment and real-time toxicovigilance across United States poison centers

Journal Article · Thu Sep 01 00:00:00 EDT 2005 · Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.taap.2005.02.036· OSTI ID:20721966

Watson, William A ^[1]; Litovitz, Toby L ^[1]; Belson, Martin G ^[2]; Funk Wolkin, Amy B ^[2]; Patel, Manish ^[2]; Schier, Joshua G ^[2]; Reid, Nicole E ^[1]; Kilbourne, Edwin ^[2]; Rubin, Carol ^[2]

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1. American Association of Poison Control Centers, 3201 New Mexico Ave NW, Suite 330, Washington, DC 20016 (United States)
2. National Center for Environmental Health/Agency for Toxic Substance and Disease Registry, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA 30333 (United States)

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.

• OSTI ID: 20721966
• Journal Information: Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology, Vol. 207, Issue 2,suppl.1; Conference: ICT X 2004: 10. international congress of toxicology: Living in a safe chemical world, Tampere (Finland), 11-15 Jul 2004; Other Information: DOI: 10.1016/j.taap.2005.02.036; PII: S0041-008X(05)00352-2; Copyright (c) 2005 Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam, The Netherlands, All rights reserved; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0041-008X
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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60 APPLIED LIFE SCIENCES
EPIDEMIOLOGY
PATIENTS
POISONING
PUBLIC HEALTH
RISK ASSESSMENT
SAFETY ANALYSIS
TOXICITY