Abstract
Despite drug users’ high mortality rates, their contacts with hospital and psychiatric treatment have received comparatively little quantification. We provide a comprehensive summary and characterisation of the hospital and psychiatric treatment episodes of a national cohort of drug treatment clients during 1996–2006. Drug treatment records were linked to national registers of deaths, hepatitis C virus (HCV) diagnoses and hospital and psychiatric episodes (hereafter hospital episode). Allowing for overdispersion, we calculated hospital episode rates (HERs) by main diagnosis at discharge; standardised hospital episode ratios (SHERs) during 2001/2002 to 2005/2006 only and Cox regression analyses of time-to-hospital-episode. The Scottish Drug Misuse Database (SDMD) cohort comprised 69,457 individuals and 350,317 person-years (pys) with 107,723 hospital episodes by 27,124 individuals: 70,094 hospital episodes occurred during 229,504 pys in 2001/2002 to 2005/2006.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 52-61 |
Number of pages | 10 |
Journal | Addiction Research and Theory |
Volume | 21 |
Issue number | 1 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2013 |
Keywords
- record linkage study
- drug treatment centre
- Scotland
- hepatitis C virus