Method overtness, forensic autopsy, and the evidentiary suicide note: A multilevel National Violent Death Reporting System analysis

• Ian R. H. Rockett ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

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

  Affiliations Department of Epidemiology, West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia, United States of America, Injury Control Research Center, West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4584-9337

  ⨯
• Eric D. Caine,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Psychiatry, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, New York, United States of America, Injury Control Research Center for Suicide Prevention, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, New York, United States of America

  ⨯
• Steven Stack,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Criminal Justice, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, United States of America, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, United States of America

  ⨯
• Hilary S. Connery,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Division of Alcohol and Drug Abuse, McLean Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

  ⨯
• Kurt B. Nolte,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Office of the Medical Investigator, University of New Mexico School of Medicine, Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States of America

  ⨯
• Christa L. Lilly,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia, United States of America

  ⨯
• Ted R. Miller,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation, Calverton, Maryland, United States of America, Curtin University School of Public Health, Perth, Australia

  ⨯
• Lewis S. Nelson,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Emergency Medicine, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, Newark, New Jersey, United States of America

  ⨯
• Sandra L. Putnam,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Injury Control Research Center, West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia, United States of America

  ⨯
• Paul S. Nestadt,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Mental Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2479-703X

  ⨯
• Haomiao Jia

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Software, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations School of Nursing, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America, Department of Biostatistics, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America

  ⨯