Building a Foundation for Health Information Exchange to Improve Poison Control

Principal Investigator: Mollie Cummins (Grant No. R21 HS018773) [6 min., 03 sec.]
This project illustrated that the collaboration between poison control centers and emergency departments is hampered by significant variability, inefficiencies, and safety vulnerabilities, including lack of shared documentation, absence of routine process for sending information back and forth aside from verbal telephone communication, and frequent patient hand-offs during the process.

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