Use of syndromic surveillance data to monitor poisonings and drug overdoses in state and local public health agencies

Injury Prevention

Volumn 22, Issue , 2016, Pages i43-i49

  Ising, Amy ^a   Proescholdbell, Scott ^b   Harmon, Katherine J ^c   Sachdeva, Nidhi ^b   Marshall, Stephen W ^d   Waller, Anna E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b N Carolina Div of Public Health   (United States)

^c University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DRUG OVERDOSE; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTOXICATION; NORTH CAROLINA; POISON CENTER; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; PROCEDURES; PUBLIC HEALTH; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

DATA COLLECTION; DRUG OVERDOSE; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; HUMANS; NORTH CAROLINA; POISON CONTROL CENTERS; POISONING; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PUBLIC HEALTH; PUBLIC HEALTH ADMINISTRATION;

EID: 84962762057     PISSN: 13538047     EISSN: 14755785     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/injuryprev-2015-041821     Document Type: Article

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