TY - JOUR PY - 2023// TI - Stop analyzing suicides, drug- and alcohol-related mortality together: response to "Are we undercounting the true burden of mortality" JO - American journal of epidemiology A1 - Tilstra, Andrea M. SP - ePub EP - ePub VL - ePub IS - ePub N2 - A recent article from Spark et al. (Am J Epidemiol. AJE-01123-2021.R3) estimates the undercount of deaths due to suicides, drug- and alcohol-related mortality in a Colorado veteran population and argues for a standardized case definition for the three causes. A case definition for these three causes implies they should be analyzed together. This is problematic given the disparate trends in and historical context behind the three causes of death.
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LA - en SN - 0002-9262 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/aje/kwad002 ID - ref1 ER -