Prescription drug overdose data & statistics guide : multiple causes of death (MCOD) dataset

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• Corporate Authors:
  National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (U.S.). Division of Unintentional Injury Prevention. Health Systems and Trauma Systems Branch. Prescription Drug Overdose Team. ; CDC WONDER
• Description:
  CDC WONDER—Wide-ranging Online Data for Epidemiologic Research—is an integrated, user-friendly, menu-driven data system that provides public-use data sets about mortality (deaths), cancer incidence, HIV and AIDS, tuberculosis, vaccinations, natality (births), census data and many other health outcomes via the online query system. Details about each dataset are available at http://wonder.cdc.gov/DataSets.html
  
  Multiple Causes of Death (MCOD) mortality data are based on death certificates for U.S. residents. Each death certificate contains underlying cause and up to twenty multiple causes of death and demographic data. Specific detail about Specific detail about variables in MCOD are available at http://wonder.cdc.gov/wonder/help/mcd.html#
  
  Data are categorized based on the place of residence of the decedent. Deaths of nonresidents (e.g. nonresident aliens, nationals living abroad, residents of Puerto Rico, Guam, the Virgin Islands, and other territories of the U.S.) and fetal deaths are excluded. On WONDER, data can be queried by national, state, regional, divisional, and county Census categories.
  
  Publication date from document properties.
  
  pdo_wonder_guide_mcod_dataset-a.pdf
  
  
• Subjects:
  Cause Of Death Datasets As Topic Documentation Drug Overdose/mortality Prescription Drugs/toxicity
• Document Type:
  Pamphlet (or booklet)
• Place as Subject:
  United States
• Pages in Document:
  8 numbered pages
• Collection(s):
  Stephen B. Thacker CDC Library
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:c8bbefa38189051212226328157e9a9483099580ef6022049da49c306777d691
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/50339/cdc_50339_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 588.89 KB ]