Servicio de Información Telefónica sobre Teratógenos Español (SITTE) y Servicio de Información Telefónica para la Embarazada (SITE): Resultados del año 2003

Abstract

Here is presented a summary of inquiries made to our teratology information services, SITTE (for health professionals) and SITE (for the general population), during the year 2003. A total of 4,607 calls to the SITE and 1,257 to the SITTE were received during this year. As in previous years, most of these questions were about risk of pharmacological treatment on embrionary/fetal development. We show the evolution of calls along the time, by type of question, by Spanish regions and within the last five years, regarding the ethnicity of women who called to our TIS, considering the increase in the number of immigrants residents in Spain. Finally, we make a brief analysis to the evolution of number calls to de SITTE according to the medical speciality