The Poisoning Severity Score: If It Did Not Exist, We Would Have To Invent It

Rose Cairns^{1

2}, Nicholas A Buckley^{3

4}

Affiliations

¹ New South Wales Poisons Information Centre, The Children's Hospital at Westmead, Westmead, NSW, 2145, Australia.
² Discipline of Pharmacology, School of Medical Sciences, Sydney Medical School, The University of Sydney, Camperdown, Australia.
³ New South Wales Poisons Information Centre, The Children's Hospital at Westmead, Westmead, NSW, 2145, Australia. Nicholas.buckley@sydney.edu.au.
⁴ Discipline of Pharmacology, School of Medical Sciences, Sydney Medical School, The University of Sydney, Camperdown, Australia. Nicholas.buckley@sydney.edu.au.

PMID: 28516408
PMCID: PMC5440327
DOI: 10.1007/s13181-017-0614-8

Editorial

The Poisoning Severity Score: If It Did Not Exist, We Would Have To Invent It

Rose Cairns et al. J Med Toxicol. 2017 Jun.

. 2017 Jun;13(2):131-134.

doi: 10.1007/s13181-017-0614-8. Epub 2017 May 17.

Authors

Rose Cairns^{1

2}, Nicholas A Buckley^{3

4}

Affiliations

¹ New South Wales Poisons Information Centre, The Children's Hospital at Westmead, Westmead, NSW, 2145, Australia.
² Discipline of Pharmacology, School of Medical Sciences, Sydney Medical School, The University of Sydney, Camperdown, Australia.
³ New South Wales Poisons Information Centre, The Children's Hospital at Westmead, Westmead, NSW, 2145, Australia. Nicholas.buckley@sydney.edu.au.
⁴ Discipline of Pharmacology, School of Medical Sciences, Sydney Medical School, The University of Sydney, Camperdown, Australia. Nicholas.buckley@sydney.edu.au.

PMID: 28516408
PMCID: PMC5440327
DOI: 10.1007/s13181-017-0614-8

No abstract available

Keywords: Poisoning; Poisoning severity score; Poisons centres; Severity score; Toxicology.

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The authors declare that they have no conflicts of interest.

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Comment on

Should We Be Using the Poisoning Severity Score?
Schwarz ES, Kopec KT, Wiegand TJ, Wax PM, Brent J. Schwarz ES, et al. J Med Toxicol. 2017 Jun;13(2):135-145. doi: 10.1007/s13181-017-0609-5. Epub 2017 Mar 10. J Med Toxicol. 2017. PMID: 28283941 Free PMC article. Review.

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