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20560743

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
3
pubmed:dateCreated
2010-6-21
pubmed:abstractText
Durkheim's nineteenth-century analysis of national suicide rates dismissed prior concerns about mortality data fidelity. Over the intervening century, however, evidence documenting various types of error in suicide data has only mounted, and surprising levels of such error continue to be routinely uncovered. Yet the annual suicide rate remains the most widely used population-level suicide metric today. After reviewing the unique sources of bias incurred during stages of suicide data collection and concatenation, we propose a model designed to uniformly estimate error in future studies. A standardized method of error estimation uniformly applied to mortality data could produce data capable of promoting high quality analyses of cross-national research questions.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jun
pubmed:issn
1943-278X
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Electronic
pubmed:volume
40
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
193-223
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2010
pubmed:articleTitle
National suicide rates a century after Durkheim: do we know enough to estimate error?
pubmed:affiliation
VISN 2 Center of Excellence for Suicide Prevention, US Veterans Administration, Canandaigua, NY 14472, USA. Cindy.Claassen@va.gov
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Review, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't, Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural