Incidence of reported cases of euthanasia adjusted for demographic composition: a study of ten years of Belgian administrative data (2014-2023).

Since the study examines the total number of euthanasia cases over time – a count variable that has shown an increasing trend – we apply a Poisson model, which is specifically designed for non-negative integer outcomes and accounts for the mean-variance relationship inherent in such data [ 25 ], as done previously on suicide count data [ 26 , 27 ].

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