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Title:Accounting for individual differences and timing of events: Estimating the effect of treatment on criminal convictions in heroin users.
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Accounting for individual differences and timing of events: estimating the effect of treatment on criminal convictions in heroin users
BACKGROUND The reduction of crime is an important outcome of opioid maintenance treatment (OMT). Criminal intensity and treatment regimes vary among OMT patients, but this is rarely adjusted for in statistical analyses, which tend to focus on cohort incidence rates and rate ratios. The purpose of this work was to estimate the relationship between treatment and criminal convictions among OMT pat...
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تاریخ انتشار 2013