TY - JOUR PY - 2015// TI - Drug overdose deaths: let's get specific JO - Public health reports (1974) A1 - Slavova, Svetla A1 - O'Brien, Daniella Bradley A1 - Creppage, Kathleen A1 - Dao, Dan A1 - Fondario, Anna A1 - Haile, Elizabeth A1 - Hume, Beth A1 - Largo, Thomas W. A1 - Nguyen, Claire A1 - Sabel, Jennifer C. A1 - Wright, Dagan SP - 339 EP - 342 VL - 130 IS - 4 N2 - Good quality surveillance data are the foundation of public health work. For opioid analgesic- and heorin-related deaths, however, the methods used to classify deaths on death certificates may be leading to a substantial under-count of these deaths, resuting in surveillance data that inaccurately portray the magnitude of this public health problem.

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