Citation

Slavova S, O'Brien DB, Creppage K, Dao D, Fondario A, Haile E, Hume B, Largo TW, Nguyen C, Sabel JC, Wright D. Public Health Rep. (1974) 2015; 130(4): 339-342.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2015, Association of Schools of Public Health)

DOI

10.1177/003335491513000411

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

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.

Language: en