Table 1.
Information types that were successfully mapped to the Toxicall® database and their data transformations
| Information Type | Description (Transformations if present*) |
|---|---|
| Exposure information | |
| Exposure type | General description of the poisoning case, e.g., unintentional food poisoning (D) |
| Certainty of formulation | Certainty level of reported poison substance formulation (D) |
| Chronicity | Exposure duration and repetition of the poisoning incident (D) |
| Establishing background/certainty | More details about the poisoning case such as symptoms, routes of exposure and exposure site (D) |
| Substance class | General category of the poisonous substance/product, e.g., sedative (D) |
| Substance name (generic) | Generic name of the poisonous substance/product |
| Substance amount | Quantity and units for the substance amount and concentration (D, MC) |
| Substance name (brand) | Brand name of the poisonous substance/product |
| Substance description | More details about the poisonous substance |
| Substance form, formulation and type | Physical form of the poisonous substance, e.g., gas and tablet, and more details about pharmaceutical nature, e.g., sustained release (D) |
| Substance-non-pharmacological | Names and descriptions for non-pharmacological substances/products |
| Time since ingestion | Duration since the time of poison exposure till the documentation/reporting time |
| Subjective and objective information | |
| Chief complaint/reason for visit | Explaining what is the patient suffers from and she/he need to visit an ED (D) |
| Caller reported symptoms | Symptoms mentioned by the one who reported for a poisoning incident over a telephone call (MC) |
| Unrelated symptoms | Symptoms reported and deemed unrelated to the current poisoning incident |
| PCC recommendations and toxicology information | |
| PCC recommendations for treatment and discharge parameters | Therapeutic advice on how to handle the poisoning case, in terms of therapies, labs and patient monitoring time (MC) |
| ED treatment/management information | |
| Diagnostic test results | Results of diagnostic test reported to PCC and stored within its database (MC) |
| Time laboratory test was performed/drawn | Reported time of conducting lab tests |
| Treatment performed (or recommended by the PCC) | Differentiating between treatments that were recommended, performed or both (MC) |
*
D, retrieve code label from code dictionary table in PCC database; MC, retrieve values from multiple columns in the PCC database