International Journal of STU & AIDS 1992; 3: 96-100
ORIGINAL ARTICLE
Outpatient medical care of injection drug use related HIV R P Brettle FRCpl/ S M Gore MA PhD 2/ and A McNeil as- DipStat2 lRegional Infectious Disease Unit, City Hospital, Edinburgh, UK and 2MRC Biostatistics Unit, Cambridge, UK Summary: By the end of March 1990 470 HIV positive patients, 77% injection drug use (IOU) related, had attended the outpatient department of the Regional Infectious Disease Unit with a cumulative loss to follow-up of only 20%. Coincident with the prescribing of oral methadone and a specific all-day IOU-related HIV medical clinic !he total number of appointments increased from 28/month in May 1986to 300/month In May 1989 (P
ORIGINAL ARTICLE
Outpatient medical care of injection drug use related HIV R P Brettle FRCpl/ S M Gore MA PhD 2/ and A McNeil as- DipStat2 lRegional Infectious Disease Unit, City Hospital, Edinburgh, UK and 2MRC Biostatistics Unit, Cambridge, UK Summary: By the end of March 1990 470 HIV positive patients, 77% injection drug use (IOU) related, had attended the outpatient department of the Regional Infectious Disease Unit with a cumulative loss to follow-up of only 20%. Coincident with the prescribing of oral methadone and a specific all-day IOU-related HIV medical clinic !he total number of appointments increased from 28/month in May 1986to 300/month In May 1989 (P
