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Eurasian Journal of Toxicology · August 31, 2026
A consensus or society position rather than new primary data.
This is a methodological commentary proposing a minimum dataset framework for acute poisoning surveillance in emergency departments, comprising exposure characteristics, clinical severity, psychosocial risk, and recurrence/prevention endpoints. It does not present original empirical findings but rather expert recommendations for standardizing toxicovigilance practice.
Journal article. Acute poisoning cases presenting to emergency departments; applies to tertiary and similar healthcare systems.. Türkiye (context referenced for applicability).
Commentary identifies predominance of intentional poisoning, medication and alcohol exposure among intentional cases, and carbon monoxide exposure among unintentional cases in the referenced 665-case series Proposes integration of Poisoning Severity Score, estimated dose, co-ingestion, time to ED arrival, antidote use, electrocardiographic toxicity, organ injury, ICU requirement, psychiatric consultation, discharge safety planning, 30-day revisit, and public health notification into routine surveillance
Proposes integration of Poisoning Severity Score, estimated dose, co-ingestion, time to ED arrival, antidote use, electrocardiographic toxicity, organ injury, ICU requirement, psychiatric consultation, discharge safety planning, 30-day revisit, and public health notification into routine surveillance
Clinicians and public health systems should consider adopting the proposed minimum dataset framework to move beyond descriptive exposure reporting toward standardized severity assessment, intent-based risk stratification, and recurrence prevention endpoints. This guidance supports more comparable and actionable toxicovigilance.
A methodological commentary proposing standardized surveillance variables and data integration frameworks for emergency toxicology, without reporting original empirical results.
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Clinicians and public health systems should consider adopting the proposed minimum dataset framework to move beyond descriptive exposure reporting toward standardized severity assessment, intent-based risk stratification, and recurrence prevention endpoints. This guidance supports more comparable and actionable toxicovigilance.
Graded across the dimensions that decide whether you should act, each from what the source actually supports. There is no single score, and where a dimension was not assessed it says so.
This letter comments on Özdal and Yüksel's one-year profile of 665 acute poisoning cases in a tertiary emergency department. The predominance of intentional poisoning, medication and alcohol exposure among intentional cases, carbon monoxide exposure among unintentional cases, and higher admission rates after intentional exposure indicate that poisoning epidemiology should move beyond descriptive exposure counts. We propose that future emergency toxicology datasets should integrate four linked domains: exposure characteristics, standardized clinical severity, intent-based psychosocial risk, and recurrence/prevention endpoints. Variables such as Poisoning Severity Score, estimated dose, co-ingestion, time from exposure to emergency department arrival, antidote use, electrocardiographic toxicity, organ injury, intensive care requirement, psychiatric consultation, discharge safety planning, 30-day revisit, and public health notification for environmental exposures may improve clinical interpretation and prevention value. Embedding this minimum dataset into routine electronic emergency department forms may support more comparable and actionable toxicovigilance in Türkiye and similar health systems.
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