Toxicology2001 Annual Report of the American Association of Poison Control Centers Toxic Exposure Surveillance System*,**
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Characterization of participating centers
Of the 64 reporting centers, 59 submitted data for the entire year. Fifty-two of the 64 participating centers were certified as regional poison centers by the AAPCC at the end of 2001. Annual center call volumes (human exposure cases only) ranged from 10,551 to 91,657 (mean 37,274) for centers participating for the entire year. Penetrance, calculated only for states that were completely served by centers participating in TESS, ranged from 5.8 to 16.8 exposures per 1,000 population with a mean
Review of the data
A major revision of TESS data fields was implemented on January 1, 2000. In 2001, the generic categorization of calls was revised. Prior revisions occurred in 1984, 1985, and 1993. TESS can now capture an unlimited number of substances for each case. As a result, the 2000 and 2001 data include more substances implicated compared to prior years, reflecting a change in data collection practice rather than in the nature of the poisonings which occurred.
Of the 2,267,979 human exposures reported in
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