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Corrections

If a death count, age-adjusted rate, ranking, or trend on PlainHealth looks wrong, report it with enough detail to reproduce the page and compare it with the CDC NCHS Leading Causes of Death record for that state, cause, and year. The full editorial process is documented in our editorial and corrections policy.

How to report

  1. Report. Email hello@plainhealthdata.com or use the contact page with the page URL, the figure that looks off, and what you think it should be.
  2. Verify. Include a link to the CDC WONDER or NCHS table you think we should match for that state, cause, and year.
  3. Scope. Say whether the issue is a raw CDC field, an age-adjusted rate, a derived comparison, a suppressed cell shown as missing, or a stale data-vintage badge.

What happens next

We verify reports against the published CDC NCHS source for that state, cause, and year and correct confirmed issues in the canonical database or pipeline so affected pages update together. Material fixes are noted when the affected pages rebuild. PlainHealth is an informational research reference, not medical, public-health, or emergency advice. In an emergency, call 911.

When the figure is correct on our side but reflects a known CDC limitation (for example a coarse cause rollup, coding change, or the finalized 2017 series cutoff), we will say so and point you to the official record. We mirror published CDC extracts and cannot rewrite a death certificate on the agency's behalf.

For how figures are derived, see the methodology page. For publisher accountability, see About PlainHealth.

Open Data

Download the compiled leading-causes extract as cdc-nchs-leading-causes.csv (9,690 mortality rows across 51 jurisdictions and 10 cause chapters, 1999–2017, same CSV as the homepage Dataset). Underlying CDC fields remain public-source; cite PlainHealth when you reuse the compiled table.

Download the compiled NCHS mortality extract: cdc-nchs-leading-causes.csv (same extract as /statistics).