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An Estimation of Drug-Related Deaths in Iran, Using the Capture-Recapture Method (2014-2016) by Masoudeh Babakhanian; Mehran Zarghami; Abbas Alipour; Ardeshir Khosravi; Seyed Saeed Hashemi-Nazari; Mehdi Saberi; Mohammad Reza Ghadirzadeh is a scholarly article available to read on EtoBox.

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## Background The Ministry of Health and Medical Education (MOHME) and the Legal Medicine Organization (LMO) are the 2 death registration systems in Iran for registering drug-related deaths. The aim of the present study was to assess the number of undercount and the overlap between the deaths registered by the 2 sources. ## Methods In this descriptive study, according to the ý10th revision of the International Classification of Diseases ý(ICD-10), the registered data on drug-related deaths in the years 2014-2016, as recorded by the MOHME and the LMO, were collected and the number of deaths was estimated using 2-source capture-recapture method and Excel and SPSS software. ## Findings The total number of drug-related deaths, as registered by the 2 sources, was 8639 during the 3 years. A major part of the drug-related deaths (75% of the data) had been registered by the LMO and only 25% of deaths had been registered by the MOHME. There was also a small overlap (7.7% of deaths) between the data from the 2 sources. The final estimation from the capture-recapture model and analysis of sensitivity showed that, during the 3 years, the total number of drug-related deaths was 14517 [95% confi

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Masoudeh Babakhanian; Mehran Zarghami; Abbas Alipour; Ardeshir Khosravi; Seyed Saeed Hashemi-Nazari; Mehdi Saberi; Mohammad Reza Ghadirzadeh