Reliability of homeless women's reports: Concordance between hair assay and self report of cocaine use

Nursing Research

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 165-171

  Nyamathi, Adeline ^a   Leake, Barbara ^b   Longshore, Douglas ^b   Gelberg, Lillian ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Drug abuse; Homeless persons; Reliability; Women

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COCAINE DEPENDENCE; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HAIR; HOMELESSNESS; HUMAN; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SELF DISCLOSURE; STATISTICAL MODEL; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; COCAINE-RELATED DISORDERS; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HAIR; HOMELESS PERSONS; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; LOS ANGELES; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SELF DISCLOSURE;

EID: 0035349874     PISSN: 00296562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006199-200105000-00007     Document Type: Article

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