Sentence examples for The npis from inspiring English sources

The number of accesses to TOXBASE, the NPIS online poisons information database, details of consecutive cases uploaded onto TOXBASE and the number and details of telephone enquiries made to the NPIS by health professionals in the UK were collected for the period March 2009 to February 2010.

After mephedrone was made illegal the number of inquiries to the NPIS fell substantially, to only 19 in June 2010.

Over the last year the NPIS has received increasing numbers of enquiries relating to synthetic cathinones, predominantly mephedrone.

This paper describes the epidemiology and clinical effects of poisoning with these agents as reported to the NPIS by the healthcare professionals involved in their care.

Over the study period the NPIS handled telephone enquiries from about 188 people reported to be exposed to cathinones (table 1).

Telephone enquiries to the NPIS are handled by information scientists from the four NPIS units in Birmingham, Cardiff, Edinburgh and Newcastle.

The National Poisons Information Service (NPIS), which doctors call for advice when treating poisoned patients, says the number of incidents reported has remained steady between 200 and 300 in each of the last five years.

We could not assess how the timing of NPI implementation across the nation affected disease mitigation efforts nor whether these NPIs lessened what might have been even higher rates had these measures not been in place in various locations.

To evaluate the effectiveness of NPIs considered here, we follow a modeling approach for stratification of the population [5] according to the clinical progression of disease and epidemiological status of the individuals (Figure S1).

The MST for screen-detectable NPIS was the longest among pre-cancer states, suggesting that more NPIS are detected in the prevalent screen than in incident screens.

For screen-detectable NPIS, the MST was 1.29 years (0.41 to 3.44).