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If you missed SAVIR’s May 14 Methods Session — or want to revisit it — the recording is now available exclusively for SAVIR members on our website.

Beyond Traditional Datasets: Using Poison Center Data to Strengthen Injury Surveillance explores how poison control center data can serve as a powerful surveillance and research tool, expanding the methodological toolkit available to injury researchers beyond conventional data sources.

Why Poison Center Data?

Injury surveillance has long relied on emergency department visits, hospital admissions, death records, and other traditional datasets. But these sources have real limitations — they can miss cases that don’t result in hospitalization, lag behind emerging trends, or lack the geographic granularity needed for community-level analysis.

Poison center data offers something different. Poison control centers receive real-time calls from across the country, capturing a wide range of exposures — intentional and unintentional — that may never appear in clinical records. For injury researchers, that represents an underutilized window into population-level harm.

This session digs into how that data can be accessed, analyzed, and applied to strengthen injury surveillance systems and inform research.

How to Access the Recording

The recording is available now as an exclusive member benefit. To view it, log in to the SAVIR website and navigate to the webinar resources page, or click the link below:

👉 Methods Session – Beyond Traditional Datasets: Using Poison Center Data to Strengthen Injury Surveillance (May 14, 2026)

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