Since the study examines the total number of euthanasia cases over time—a count variable that has shown an increasing trend—we applied Poisson modeling, which is specifically designed for nonnegative integer outcomes and accounts for the mean-variance association inherent in such data, 37 as applied previously on suicide count data. 38 , 39 We compared 2 models.
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Incidence and Prevalence of Reported Euthanasia Cases in Belgium, 2002 to 2023.
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