Variable Classification of Drug-Intoxication Suicides across US States: A Partial Artifact of Forensics?

Ian R. H. Rockett; Gerald R. Hobbs; Dan Wu; Haomiao Jia; Kurt B. Nolte; Gordon S. Smith; Sandra L. Putnam; Eric D. Caine

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0135296

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Variable Classification of Drug-Intoxication Suicides across US States: A Partial Artifact of Forensics?

Ian R. H. Rockett ,

* E-mail: irockett@hsc.wvu.edu

Affiliation Injury Control Research Center and Department of Epidemiology, West Virginia University School of Public Health, Morgantown, West Virginia, United States of America
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Gerald R. Hobbs,

Affiliation Department of Statistics, West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia, United States of America
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Dan Wu,

Affiliation Department of Psychology, Guangdong Medical College, Dongguan, Guandong, China and Department of Social Medicine, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China
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Haomiao Jia,

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, Mailman School of Public Health, and School of Nursing, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America
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Kurt B. Nolte,

Affiliation Office of the Medical Investigator – Department of Pathology, University of New Mexico School of Medicine, Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States of America
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Gordon S. Smith,

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
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Sandra L. Putnam,

Affiliation Social Solutions International Inc., Silver Spring, Maryland, United States of America
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Eric D. Caine

Affiliation Injury Control Research Center for Suicide Prevention and Department of Psychiatry, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, New York, United States of America
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Variable Classification of Drug-Intoxication Suicides across US States: A Partial Artifact of Forensics?

Ian R. H. Rockett,
Gerald R. Hobbs,
Dan Wu,
Haomiao Jia,
Kurt B. Nolte,
Gordon S. Smith,
Sandra L. Putnam,
Eric D. Caine

Published: August 21, 2015
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0135296

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Correction for Table 1.

Posted by irockett on 22 Aug 2015 at 15:08 GMT

Please note that there are some issues with Table 1 that will be rectified in due course by PLoS One staff. The main one is that the fifth column of data should be listed under the heading for the fifth (and final) column. Ian Rockett

No competing interests declared.

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