ArticlePsychiatric services (Washington, D.C.)2020
Reevaluating Suicide Mortality for Veterans With Data From the VA-DoD Mortality Data Repository, 2000-2010.
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5 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- An Evidence Map of the Women Veterans' Health Literature, 2016 to 2023: A Systematic Review.JAMA network open · 2025Pooled it
- How many people die by suicide each year? Not 727,000: a systematic review and meta-analysis of suicide underreporting across 71 countries over 122 years.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Pooled it
- Association of veteran suicide risk with state-level firearm ownership rates and firearm laws in the USA.Injury prevention : journal of the International Society for Child and Adolescent Injury Prevention · 2026Article
- Suicide Risk Among US Veterans With Military Service During the Vietnam War.JAMA network open · 2023Article
- Suicide Among Veterans: Veterans' Issues in Focus.Rand health quarterly · 2022Article
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Abstract
objectiveThe Department of Veterans Affairs and Department of Defense Mortality Data Repository (MDR) compiles National Death Index records for all veterans and military service members. This study aimed to compare MDR findings with those from a preexisting data source.
methodsVeteran suicide rates estimated from death certificates were replicated with the MDR. Annual suicide rates were computed for veterans overall, by gender, and by Veterans Health Administration service utilization and compared with rates for adult nonveterans by using standardized mortality ratios (SMRs).
resultsSuicide rates and SMRs differed between the data sources. The 2010 MDR-derived veteran suicide rate was 27.4 deaths per 100,000 veterans, compared with an earlier estimate of 35.9. Differences were greater for females. Divergence was attributed to improved accuracy identifying veteran suicide decedents in the MDR.
conclusionsConditions with low base rates can be major public health problems, and minor misclassification can substantially affect surveillance accuracy, prevention efforts, and the validity of study findings.
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