Notice to Readers: Forthcoming Correction and Republication of the Report “Deaths and Years of Potential Life Lost From Excessive Alcohol Use — United States, 2011–2015”

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• Journal Article:
  Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR)
• Description:
  Recently, the authors of the report “Deaths and Years of Potential Life Lost From Excessive Alcohol Use — United States, 2011–2015” (1) informed MMWR Editors that some results were inaccurate as a result of a data input error that occurred during an update to the online Alcohol-Related Disease Impact application (2), which was used in the study. This error resulted in an overall underestimate of average annual alcohol-attributable deaths by 1,862 and years of potential life lost by 79,844 for the United States during 2011–2015. On September 3, 2020, corrections were made in the online Alcohol-Related Disease Impact application to the alcohol-attributable fractions for five acute causes of death: drownings, fall injuries, fire injuries, firearm injuries, and homicide. The updated national and state estimates are now available in the Alcohol-Related Disease Impact application (2). The authors conducted a reAnalysis and verification of the data, and a revised report will be published in the coming weeks.
• Subjects:
  Notice to Readers
• Source:
  MMWR Morbidity Mortal Weekly Rep. 69(35):1230
• Series:
  Weekly Report: Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR)
• ISSN:
  0149-2195 (print) ; 1545-861X (digital)
• Pubmed ID:
  32881849
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC7470463
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Pages in Document:
  1 pdf page
• Volume:
  69
• Issue:
  35
• Collection(s):
  Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR)
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:3d6c5472bff6f4e56817f3621e1d3d0fe84a428320b72d0c27c6762e1d46354748e1ac097c191b0e9b3127afae6812c142690c207ccb7ee704dd3f7cfeb9f931
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/93944/cdc_93944_DS1.pdf
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