Establishing the Melbourne injecting drug user cohort study (MIX): rationale, methods, and baseline and twelve-month follow-up results

Establishing the Melbourne injecting drug user cohort study (MIX): rationale, methods, and baseline and twelve-month follow-up results

Background: Cohort studies provide an excellent opportunity to monitor changes in behaviour and diseasetransmission over time. In Australia, cohort studies of people who inject drugs (PWID) have generally focused onolder, in-treatment injectors, with only limited outcome measure data collected. In t...

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Main Authors: Horyniak, D., Higgs, Peter, Jenkinson, R., Degenhardt, L., Stoove, M., Kerr, T., Hickman, M., Aitken, C., Dietze, P.
Format: Journal Article
Published: BioMed Central 2013
Subjects:
Longitudinal studies
Cohort
Australia
Injecting drug use
Online Access:http://www.harmreductionjournal.com/content/10/1/11
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/49233

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http://www.harmreductionjournal.com/content/10/1/11
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/49233

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