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cord-321230-b5a1z14w	Samji, Hasina	Drug-related deaths in a population-level cohort of people living with and without hepatitis C virus in British Columbia, Canada	2020-10-19		.txt	text/plain	5467	225	48	Lastly, if an underlying cause of death code was recorded as ICD-10 R99 (other ill-defined and unspecified causes, usually assigned when cause of death is still under investigation), and manner of death was listed as "pending," "accident," or "undetermined," we re-categorized the death as drug-related if the death met the following criteria: attributable to a person aged 20 to 64 years who also injects drugs (defined as any drug-related diagnoses, use of injection drugs, record of opioid agonist therapy dispensation or injection related infection using physician diagnostic and billing data, hospitalizations, prescription data, vital statistics and emergency room data), based on validation studies in the US and in the BC-HTC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2004; to mitigate the impact of missing data on the analysis. We compared PLHCV and HCV-negative individuals who died of DRDs, estimated annual age and sex-adjusted drug-related mortality rates per 100,000 person-years (PY) for these groups and examined trends over time by sex.	./cache/cord-321230-b5a1z14w.txt	./txt/cord-321230-b5a1z14w.txt