title: Poison prevention: engineering in primary prevention.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Over the past 50 years we have seen improvements in outcomes of poisonings in the United States. I intend to discuss the approaches to prevention.
  
  
  METHODS
  I review various primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention strategies in relationship to poison prevention.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  We have made strong efforts in some ways, but our efforts in primary prevention have often been less than maximal. We propose requiring lockable medicine cabinets and lockable storage cabinets for dangerous substances.
authors.affiliation: New Jersey Medical School, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Bergen Street, Newark, NJ 07101–1709, USA. smarcus@njpies.org
authors.forename: Steven Matthew
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Marcus
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D011039:Poison Control Centers; D011041:Poisoning / Q000517:prevention & control*; D011322:Primary Prevention / Q000379:methods* / Q000639:trends; D012637:Security Measures; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D015262:Xenobiotics / Q000506:poisoning*
chemical_list: D015262:Xenobiotics