This erratum is being published to correct a reference error on page 248 of the following article:
Ye X, Sutherland J, Henry B, Tyndall M, Kendall PRW. At-a-glance – Impact of drug overdose-related deaths on life expectancy at birth in British Columbia. Health Promot Chronic Dis Prev Can. 2018;38(6):248-51. doi: 10.24095/hpcdp.38.6.05.
Before correction
The contribution of drug overdose deaths to life expectancy change has rarely been quantified. Between 2000 and 2014, unintentional poisonings (mostly drug and alcohol overdoses) contributed a loss of 0.338 years in life expectancy at birth (LE0) for the non-Hispanic white population in the United States of America (USA), the greatest negative impact by cause of death.4
with reference 4 as the following:
4. Kochanek KD, Murphy SL, Xu J, Arias E. Mortality in the United States, 2016 Key findings Data from the National Vital Statistics System. NCHS Data Brief. 2016;293:1-8. Available from: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/databriefs/db293.pdf
After correction
The contribution of drug overdose deaths to life expectancy change has rarely been quantified. Between 2000 and 2014, unintentional poisonings (mostly drug and alcohol overdoses) contributed a loss of 0.338 years in life expectancy at birth (LE0) for the non-Hispanic white population in the United States of America (USA), the greatest negative impact by cause of death.4
with reference 4 as the following:
4. Kochanek KD, Arias E, Bastian BA. The effect of changes in selected age-specific causes of death on non-Hispanic White life expectancy between 2000 and 2014. NCHS Data Brief. 2016;250:1-8. Available from: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/databriefs /db250.htm