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Correction notice issued for report on alcohol-related deaths and life years lost in US

Correction notice issued for report on alcohol-related deaths and life years lost in US
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Key Takeaway
Await corrected data from republished report on US alcohol-related mortality.

A correction notice has been issued for a previously published report on excessive alcohol use in the United States population. The notice states the original report contained errors, and a corrected version will be published. No details about the study type, sample size, or specific results are provided in this notice.

The intervention or exposure, comparator, and all primary and secondary outcomes are not reported. The main results section is entirely unspecified, with no outcome, result, effect size, absolute numbers, p-values, or direction of effect available. Safety and tolerability data are also not reported.

This is solely a notice of correction, not a research report. The key limitation is the complete absence of study data or methodological details. The practice relevance cannot be assessed until the corrected report is published. Clinicians should disregard the original, erroneous figures and await the republication for accurate data on alcohol-related mortality and years of potential life lost in the US.

Study Details

EvidenceLevel 5
PublishedSep 2020
View Original Abstract ↓
This notice states that a report on the number of deaths and potential years of life lost because of excessive alcohol use in the United States previously published in MMWR had a number of errors and will be republished with corrections.
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