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SUBMITTER: Rossen LM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4659494 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Health & place 20131201
Over the past several years, the death rate associated with drug poisoning has increased by over 300% in the U.S. Drug poisoning mortality varies widely by state, but geographic variation at the substate level has largely not been explored. National mortality data (2007-2009) and small area estimation methods were used to predict age-adjusted death rates due to drug poisoning at the county level, which were then mapped in order to explore: whether drug poisoning mortality clusters by county, and ...[more]