Validity of self-reported needle exchange attendance among injection drug users: implications for program evaluation.

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Published in Am J Epidemiol on January 15, 2002

Authors

Mahboobeh Safaeian1, Ron Brookmeyer, David Vlahov, Carl Latkin, Melissa Marx, Steffanie A Strathdee

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA.

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