NCHS - Drug Poisoning Mortality by State: United States

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United States Department of Health and Human Services. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and National Center for Health Statistics. NCHS - Drug Poisoning Mortality by State: United States. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2026-01-10. https://doi.org/10.3886/E243121V1

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Project Title:  View help for Project Title NCHS - Drug Poisoning Mortality by State: United States
Summary:  View help for Summary This dataset describes drug poisoning deaths at the U.S. and state level by selected demographic characteristics, and includes age-adjusted death rates for drug poisoning. Deaths are classified using the International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision (ICD–10). Drug-poisoning deaths are defined as having ICD–10 underlying cause-of-death codes X40–X44 (unintentional), X60–X64 (suicide), X85 (homicide), or Y10–Y14 (undetermined intent). Estimates are based on the National Vital Statistics System multiple cause-of-death mortality files (1). Age-adjusted death rates (deaths per 100,000 U.S. standard population for 2000) are calculated using the direct method. Populations used for computing death rates for 2011–2017 are postcensal estimates based on the 2010 U.S. census. Rates for census years are based on populations enumerated in the corresponding censuses. Rates for noncensus years before 2010 are revised using updated intercensal population estimates and may differ from rates previously published. Death rates for some states and years may be low due to a high number of unresolved pending cases or misclassification of ICD–10 codes for unintentional poisoning as R99, “Other ill-defined and unspecified causes of mortality” (2). For example, this issue is known to affect New Jersey in 2009 and West Virginia in 2005 and 2009 but also may affect other years and other states. Drug poisoning death rates may be underestimated in those instances. REFERENCES 1. National Center for Health Statistics. National Vital Statistics System: Mortality data. Available from: http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/deaths.htm. 2. CDC. CDC Wonder: Underlying cause of death 1999–2016. Available from: http://wonder.cdc.gov/wonder/help/ucd.html. Read less
Original Distribution URL:  View help for Original Distribution URL https://data.cdc.gov/National-Center-for-Health-Statistics/NCHS-Drug-Poisoning-Mortality-by-State-United-Stat/44rk-q6r2/about_data

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Subject Terms:  View help for Subject Terms deaths; drug poisoning; mortality; state; national; united states; nchs
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