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Prescription opioid misuse and its relation to injection drug use and hepatitis C virus infection: protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis

Overview of attention for article published in Systematic Reviews, September 2014
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Title
Prescription opioid misuse and its relation to injection drug use and hepatitis C virus infection: protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis
Published in
Systematic Reviews, September 2014
DOI 10.1186/2046-4053-3-95
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Authors

Ashly E Jordan, Don Des Jarlais, Holly Hagan

Abstract

The production, prescription, and consumption of opioid analgesics to treat non-cancer pain have increased dramatically in the USA in the past decade. As a result, misuse of these opioids has increased; overdose and transition to riskier forms of drug use have also emerged. Research points to a trend in transition to drug injection among those misusing prescription opioids, where clusters of acute hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection are now being reported. This systematic review and meta-analysis aims to synthesize the prevalence of prescription opioid misuse in the USA and examine the rate of transition to injection drug use and incident HCV in these new people who inject drugs (PWID).

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 1 2%
Unknown 57 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 13 22%
Researcher 9 16%
Student > Ph. D. Student 7 12%
Student > Doctoral Student 5 9%
Other 4 7%
Other 9 16%
Unknown 11 19%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 22 38%
Nursing and Health Professions 5 9%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 3 5%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 3 5%
Social Sciences 3 5%
Other 10 17%
Unknown 12 21%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 3. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 24 September 2014.
All research outputs
#13,337,173
of 22,761,738 outputs
Outputs from Systematic Reviews
#1,410
of 1,991 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#111,512
of 237,378 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Systematic Reviews
#24
of 32 outputs
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