Early detection of illness associated with poisonings of public health significance

Annals of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 170-176

  Wolkin, Amy F ^a,c   Patel, Manish ^a   Watson, William ^b   Belson, Martin ^a   Rubin, Carol ^a   Schier, Joshua ^a   Kilbourne, Edwin M ^a   Crawford, Carol Gotway ^a   Wattigney, Wendy ^a   Litovitz, Toby ^b  

^a AGENCY FOR TOXIC SUBSTANCES AND DISEASE REGISTRY   (United States)

^b American Association of Poison Control Centers   (United States)

^c CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC; CHEMICAL AGENT;

ARSENIC POISONING; ARTICLE; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; EMERGENCY PHYSICIAN; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FOOD CONTAMINATION; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; POISON CENTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; TERRORISM; UNITED STATES; WATER CONTAMINATION;

ARSENIC POISONING; CHEMICAL TERRORISM; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DUTY TO WARN; FOOD POISONING; HUMANS; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; POISON CONTROL CENTERS; POISONING; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PUBLIC HEALTH; UNITED STATES;

EID: 31044452604     PISSN: 01960644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2005.09.016     Document Type: Article

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