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Article History

Received: 14 August 2023

Accepted: 15 July 2024

First Online: 23 July 2024

Declarations

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: In Australia, every death must be certified by either a doctor (more than 85% of deaths) or a coroner (less than 15%). We obtained unit record data from the Australia Coordinating Registry which manages the data from all States and Territories. Therefore, no live human or animal was involved in this study. For each decedent, the data included the underlying and contributing causes of death as well as age at death, sex, state in which death was registered, and certifier (doctor or coroner). Therefore, consent to participate was not applicable. Moreover, the decedents were not identifiable, and this work did not involve any intervention. Therefore, this work did not require approval by an ethics committee.

: Consent for publication was not applicable.

: The authors declare no competing interests.