On July 31, 2020, MMWR published “Deaths and Years of Potential Life Lost From Excessive Alcohol Use — United
States, 2011–2015” (). On August 19, 2020, the authors informed
MMWR that some results were inaccurate because of a data input
error that occurred during an update to the Alcohol-Related Disease Impact application
() used in the study. This
error resulted in an overall underestimate of average annual alcohol-attributable deaths
by 1,862 (from 93,296 to 95,158) and years of potential life lost by 79,844 (from
2,683,211 to 2,763,055) 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 authors have corrected the
MMWR report accordingly and confirmed that the interpretation and
the conclusions of the original report were not affected by these corrections. In
accordance with December 2017 guidance from the International Committee of Medical
Journal Editors (),
MMWR is republishing the report (). The republished report includes the original report
with clearly marked corrections in supplementary materials.
Authors: Marissa B Esser; Adam Sherk; Yong Liu; Timothy S Naimi; Timothy Stockwell; Mandy Stahre; Dafna Kanny; Michael Landen; Richard Saitz; Robert D Brewer Journal: MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep Date: 2020-10-02 Impact factor: 17.586
Authors: Marissa B Esser; Adam Sherk; Yong Liu; Timothy S Naimi; Timothy Stockwell; Mandy Stahre; Dafna Kanny; Michael Landen; Richard Saitz; Robert D Brewer Journal: MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep Date: 2020-07-31 Impact factor: 17.586