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Estimation of the Frequency of Intravenous Drug Users in Hamadan City, Iran, Using the Capture-recapture Method

OBJECTIVES: The number of illicit drug users is prone to underestimation. This study aimed to use the capture-recapture method as a statistical procedure for measuring the prevalence of intravenous drug users (IDUs) by estimating the number of unknown IDUs not registered by any of the registry cente...

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Autores principales: Khazaei, Salman, Poorolajal, Jalal, Mahjub, Hossein, Esmailnasab, Nader, Mirzaei, Mohammad
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Korean Society of Epidemiology 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3495251/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23173080
http://dx.doi.org/10.4178/epih/e2012006