Mortality among people who inject drugs: a systematic review and meta-analysis
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Mortality among people who inject drugs: a systematic review and meta-analysis.
OBJECTIVE To systematically review cohort studies of mortality among people who inject drugs, examine mortality rates and causes of death in this group, and identify participant- and study-level variables associated with a higher risk of death. METHODS Tailored search strings were used to search EMBASE, Medline and PsycINFO. The grey literature was identified through online grey literature da...
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عنوان ژورنال: Bulletin of the World Health Organization
سال: 2013
ISSN: 0042-9686
DOI: 10.2471/blt.12.108282