Citation

Krug EG, Kresnow M, Peddicord JP, Dahlberg LL, Powell KE, Crosby AE, Annest JL. New Engl. J. Med. 1999; 340(2): 148-149.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1999, Massachusetts Medical Society)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

9449732

Abstract

"...We regretfully report that we have discovered an error in computer programming and that our previous results are incorrect. The error was discovered when we tried to repeat the analysis to determine whether there are changes in homicide rates after natural disasters. When we retraced the process of assembling the set of data on suicide, we discovered that deaths occurring in 1990 had been counted twice..."