Suicide and unintentional poisoning mortality trends in the United States, 1987-2006: two unrelated phenomena?
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- 17 November 2010
- journal article
- Published by Springer Nature in BMC Public Health
- Vol. 10 (1) , 705
Abstract
Two counter trends in injury mortality have been separately reported in the US in recent times - a declining suicide rate and a rapidly rising unintentional poisoning mortality rate. Poisoning suicides are especially difficult to detect, and injury of undetermined intent is the underlying cause-of-death category most likely to reflect this difficulty. We compare suicide and poisoning mortality trends over two decades in a preliminary assessment of their independence and implications for suicide misclassification.Keywords
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