Brief Report: Opioid-Involved Overdose Mortality in United States Veterans.

Background And Objectives: The purpose of this study is to assess trends in opioid-involved overdose mortality among US Veterans.

Methods: Age-adjusted drug overdose mortality rates, overall and by opioid subtype, were assessed from National Death Index data for US Veterans; statistical significance of trends was assessed for 2010 to 2015 and 2015 to 2016.

Results: Veteran age-adjusted overdose mortality rates increased 23.

All-cause mortality in patients with basal and squamous cell carcinoma: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

Background: There are varying reports of the association of basal cell carcinoma (BCC) and cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) with mortality.

Objective: To synthesize the available information on all-cause mortality after a diagnosis of BCC or SCC in the general population.

Methods: We searched PubMed (1966-present), Web of Science (1898-present), and Embase (1947-present) and hand-searched to identify additional records.