Original research
par
Bormann, Nicholas L. & Stephan Arndt
Date de publication
2024
Géographie
USA
Langue de la ressource
English
Texte disponible en version intégrale
Non
Open Access / OK to Reproduce
Non
Évalué par des pairs
Yes
L’objectif
We sought to quantify the methodologic bias incorporated by using all encounters versus initial encounters and assess if this risk is evenly distributed across all routes of drug administration.
Constatations/points à retenir
Using encounter-based datasets can introduce bias when including all admissions versus exclusively initial treatment episodes. This report is the first to quantify this bias and shows that individuals with IDU are at highest risk for returning to treatment, thereby over-representing this method of use when all encounters are used.
La conception ou méthodologie de recherche
TEDS-A 2000–2020 dataset with nonmissing primary substance data was used.
Mots clés
Injecting drugs
Hospitals
About PWUD
