Variable classification of drug-intoxication suicides across US states: A partial artifact of forensics?

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 8, 2015, Pages

  Rockett, Ian R H ^a   Hobbs, Gerald R ^a   Wu, Dan ^b,c   Jia, Haomiao ^d   Nolte, Kurt B ^e   Smith, Gordon S ^f   Putnam, Sandra L ^g   Caine, Eric D ^h  

^a WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GUANGDONG MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (China)

^d Department of Social Medicine Zhejiang University School of Medicine ^*  (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^g Social Solutions International Inc   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; DEATH CERTIFICATE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DRUG INTOXICATION; FORENSIC TOXICOLOGY; GEOGRAPHY; HUMAN; MORTALITY; SUICIDE; TOXICITY TESTING; UNITED STATES; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHILD; DRUG OVERDOSE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ETHICS; FEMALE; FORENSIC MEDICINE; HEALTH SURVEY; HOME ACCIDENT; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PRESCHOOL CHILD; STATISTICAL BIAS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

PRESCRIPTION DRUG;

ACCIDENTS, HOME; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CAUSE OF DEATH; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DEATH CERTIFICATES; DRUG OVERDOSE; FEMALE; FORENSIC MEDICINE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PRESCRIPTION DRUGS; SUICIDE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84943166230     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0135296     Document Type: Article

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