title: Methods for estimating incidence of drug use: a review.
abstract: Several methods for estimating drug use incidence, that have been used in the literature or that could be used, having been used in a different framework, are described and commented. The applicability of the different methods depends on available data and knowledge about relevant parameters. The many similarities between drug use incidence estimation and estimation of disease incidence are highlighted, but also the distinguishing aspects that make drug use incidence estimation a challenge to standard statistical methods.
authors.forename: Albert
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Sánchez-Niubò
authors.forename: Alessia
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Mammone
authors.affiliation: IMIM-Institut Hospital del Mar d'Investigacions Mèdiques, Doctor Aiguader 88, E-08003 Barcelona, Spain. asanchez@imim.es.
authors.forename: Gianpaolo Scalia
authors.initials: GS
authors.lastname: Tomba
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D015233:Models, Statistical; D019966:Substance-Related Disorders / Q000453:epidemiology*