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Unsafe injection practices in a cohort of injection drug users in Vancouver: Could safer injecting rooms help?
Evan Wood, Mark W. Tyndall, Patricia M. Spittal, Kathy Li, Thomas Kerr, Robert S. Hogg, Julio S.G. Montaner, Michael V. O'Shaughnessy and Martin T. Schechter
CMAJ August 21, 2001 165 (4) 405-410;
Evan Wood
From *the British Columbia Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS, St. Paul's Hospital, and the Departments of †Health Care and Epidemiology, ‡Medicine and §Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC
Mark W. Tyndall
From *the British Columbia Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS, St. Paul's Hospital, and the Departments of †Health Care and Epidemiology, ‡Medicine and §Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC
Patricia M. Spittal
From *the British Columbia Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS, St. Paul's Hospital, and the Departments of †Health Care and Epidemiology, ‡Medicine and §Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC
Kathy Li
From *the British Columbia Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS, St. Paul's Hospital, and the Departments of †Health Care and Epidemiology, ‡Medicine and §Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC
Thomas Kerr
From *the British Columbia Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS, St. Paul's Hospital, and the Departments of †Health Care and Epidemiology, ‡Medicine and §Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC
Robert S. Hogg
From *the British Columbia Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS, St. Paul's Hospital, and the Departments of †Health Care and Epidemiology, ‡Medicine and §Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC
Julio S.G. Montaner
From *the British Columbia Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS, St. Paul's Hospital, and the Departments of †Health Care and Epidemiology, ‡Medicine and §Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC
Michael V. O'Shaughnessy
From *the British Columbia Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS, St. Paul's Hospital, and the Departments of †Health Care and Epidemiology, ‡Medicine and §Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC
Martin T. Schechter
From *the British Columbia Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS, St. Paul's Hospital, and the Departments of †Health Care and Epidemiology, ‡Medicine and §Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC
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Unsafe injection practices in a cohort of injection drug users in Vancouver: Could safer injecting rooms help?
Evan Wood, Mark W. Tyndall, Patricia M. Spittal, Kathy Li, Thomas Kerr, Robert S. Hogg, Julio S.G. Montaner, Michael V. O'Shaughnessy, Martin T. Schechter
CMAJ Aug 2001, 165 (4) 405-410;
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