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Poison control centers: can their value be measured?

W D King1, P A Palmisano

  • 1Southeast Child Safety Institute, Children's Hospital of Alabama, Birmingham 35233.

Southern Medical Journal
|June 1, 1991
PubMed
Summary

Closing poison control centers increases emergency room visits and reduces home management of poison exposures. This leads to higher healthcare costs, demonstrating the value of these vital public health services.

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Area of Science:

  • Toxicology
  • Public Health
  • Health Services Research

Background:

  • Poison control centers offer 24-hour expert guidance for poison exposures, facilitating home management.
  • The closure of poison control services may increase reliance on emergency departments for poison cases.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To compare community response patterns to poison exposure in Louisiana before and after the closure of its state poison control service.
  • To compare Louisiana's response patterns to Alabama, which maintained its poison control services.

Main Methods:

  • Comparative analysis of poison exposure case management in Louisiana (pre- and post-closure) and Alabama.
  • Evaluation of healthcare seeking behaviors and home management rates.

Main Results:

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  • Following closure, Louisiana saw a fourfold increase in "self-referral" to healthcare facilities and a halving of home management rates.
  • Pre-closure, Louisiana and Alabama poison exposure triage patterns were similar.
  • Unnecessary outpatient costs in Louisiana reached an estimated $1.4 million annually.

Conclusions:

  • Discontinuing poison control services significantly increases healthcare utilization for poison exposures.
  • Maintaining poison control centers is cost-effective, preventing unnecessary healthcare expenditures.