Measuring the use and career histories of drug users in treatment: Reliability of the Lifetime Drug Use History (LDUH) and its data yield relative to clinical case notes

Drug and Alcohol Review

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 171-177

  Day, Ed ^a   Best, David ^a   Cantillano, Vanessa ^a,b   Gaston, Romina Lopez ^a   Nambamali, Angela ^a,c   Keaney, Francis ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE   (Chile)

^c KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

drug careers; life history; reliability; transitions

Indexed keywords

ADDICTION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; COCAINE DEPENDENCE; DOCUMENTATION; FEMALE; HEROIN DEPENDENCE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MALE; MASS SCREENING; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRE; REPRODUCIBILITY; VALIDATION STUDY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; COCAINE-RELATED DISORDERS; DOCUMENTATION; FEMALE; HEROIN DEPENDENCE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MEDICAL HISTORY TAKING; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS;

EID: 38949114197     PISSN: 09595236     EISSN: 14653362     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09595230701829504     Document Type: Article

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