Supervised injecting facilities: time for scale-up?

The Lancet

Volumn 372, Issue 9636, 2008, Pages 354-355

  Kerr, Thomas ^a,b   Montaner, Julio ^a,b   Wood, Evan ^a,b  

^a ST PAUL S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ILLICIT DRUG;

ARTICLE; DRUG DETOXIFICATION; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION PREVENTION; INFECTION RISK; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ABUSE; MEDICAL SERVICE; PATIENT CARE PLANNING; PATIENT COUNSELING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELF INJECTION; SYRINGE;

EID: 48149100418     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(08)61138-1     Document Type: Note

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