Reporting of alcohol as a contributor to death in Australian national suicide statistics and its relationship to post-mortem alcohol concentrations.
Kate M ChittyJennifer L SchumannLauren L MoranDaniel G ChongTristan P HurzelerNicholas A BuckleyPublished in: Addiction (Abingdon, England) (2020)
An ICD-10 alcohol code was not assigned as an underlying or contributory cause of death in over half of suicides in Australia (2010-2015) with a BAC ≥0.05 g/100 mL. The higher the BAC detected at autopsy, the more likely cases were to be assigned an alcohol code during the mortality coding process.