Drug-related deaths by region, sex, and age group per 100 injecting drug users in Scotland, 2000-01

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Volumn 362, Issue 9388, 2003, Pages 941-944

  Bird, Sheila M ^a,b   Hutchinson, Sharon J ^c,d   Goldberg, David J ^c  

^a MRC BIOSTATISTICS UNIT   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

^c Scottish Centre for Infection and Environmental Health   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DRUG USE; FEMALE; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INJECTION; MALE; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 0141651962     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(03)14362-0     Document Type: Article

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