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From EurekAlert! - Breaking News: According to a new study, knowledge of potentially toxic household substances among primary caregivers for young children is alarmingly poor. The results show that less than one-third of primary caregivers for children under the age of six could correctly estimate the toxicity of household poisons. The study is being presented at the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine's 2008 Annual Meeting. These include: more education, responsibility for fewer children and an age greater than twenty-three years. This paper will be presented at the 2008 SAEM Annual Meeting, May 29-June 1, 2008, Washington, D.C. on Friday, May 30, 2008, in the poster presentations that will be held from 3:30 -- 5:30 in Exhibit Hall A of the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel. Abstracts of the papers presented are published in Vol. 15, No. 5, Supplement 1, May 2008 of the official journal of the SAEM, Academic Emergency Medicine. The Society for Academic Emergency Medicine (SAEM) is a national non-profit organization of over 6,000 academic emergency physicians, emergency medicine residents and medical students. SAEM's vision is to promote ready access to quality emergency care for all patients, to advance emergency medicine as an academic and clinical discipline, and to maintain the highest professional standards as clinicians, teachers, and researchers. Together, the companies have created a global publishing business with deep strength in every major academic and professional field.
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