Mortality of drug users in the EU: coordination of implementation of new cohort studies, follow-up and analysis of existing cohorts and development of new methods and outputs

Introduction

This 2002 report presents the results of the mortality cohorts implemented through the EMCDDA multi-site study. The report contains: the descriptions of the cohorts, the standardised mortality rates (general and cause-specific, when possible), the standardised mortality ratios (SMR), a survival analysis of cohorts' participants by age and site, and a univariate and multivariate analysis of factors related to mortality.

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Table of contents

  • Executive summary
  • Introduction
  • Cohorts enrolment and follow-up: state of the art
  • Comparative overall mortality analysis
  • Advanced analysis
  • Morbidity data
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