Prevalence of problematic cocaine consumption in a city of southern Europe, using capture-recapture with a single list

Journal of Urban Health

Volumn 81, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 416-427

  Brugal, M T ^a   Domingo Salvany, A ^b   Diaz De Quijano E ^a   Torralba, L ^a  

^a AGÈNCIA DE SALUT PÚBLICA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b INST MUNIC D INVESTIGACIO MEDICA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Capture recapture; Cocaine use; Emergency room

Indexed keywords

COCAINE; OPIATE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CITY; COCAINE DEPENDENCE; EMERGENCY; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMATION SYSTEM; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL PROBLEM; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN; SUBSTANCE ABUSE; URBAN AREA;

ADULT; COCAINE-RELATED DISORDERS; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; EPIDEMIOLOGIC RESEARCH DESIGN; FEMALE; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; PREVALENCE; SPAIN;

EID: 4344615534     PISSN: 10993460     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jurban/jth127     Document Type: Article

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