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List of works by Sheila M Bird

A population-based record linkage study of mortality in hepatitis C-diagnosed persons with or without HIV coinfection in Scotland

scientific article

A record linkage study of hospital episodes for drug treatment clients in Scotland, 1996–2006

journal article; published in Addiction Research & Theory in 2013

A record-linkage study of drug-related death and suicide after hospital discharge among drug-treatment clients in Scotland, 1996-2006.

scientific article published in November 2012

Association of self-reported alcohol use and hospitalization for an alcohol-related cause in Scotland: a record-linkage study of 23,183 individuals.

scientific article

Corrigendum to "National record linkage study of mortality for a large cohort of opioid users ascertained by drug treatment or criminal justice sources in England, 2005-2009" [Drug Alcohol Depend. 146 (2015) 17-23].

scientific article published on 9 October 2015

Drug-related deaths by region, sex, and age group per 100 injecting drug users in Scotland, 2000–01

scientific article published on September 20, 2003

Drug-related deaths-a wider view is necessary

scientific article published on 14 May 2019

Drugs-Related Death Soon after Hospital-Discharge among Drug Treatment Clients in Scotland: Record Linkage, Validation, and Investigation of Risk-Factors

scientific article

Effect of initiating drug treatment on the risk of drug-related poisoning death and acquisitive crime among offending heroin users.

scientific article published on 17 November 2017

Effectiveness of Scotland's National Naloxone Programme for reducing opioid-related deaths: a before (2006-10) versus after (2011-13) comparison

scientific article published on 07 December 2015

Effectiveness of Scotland's national naloxone programme: response to letter to editor

scientific article published on 19 April 2016

Engagement in a National Naloxone Programme among people who inject drugs

scientific article published on 3 March 2016

Estimating current injectors in Scotland and their drug-related death rate by sex, region and age-group via Bayesian capture--recapture methods

scientific article published on 26 November 2008

Fatal accident inquiries into 83 deaths in Scottish prison custody: 2010-2013

scientific article published on 30 October 2020

Hospitalisation for an alcohol-related cause among injecting drug users in Scotland: Increased risk following diagnosis with hepatitis C infection

article

Hospitalization of hepatitis C-diagnosed individuals in Scotland for decompensated cirrhosis: a population-based record-linkage study

scientific article published in January 2010

Impact of opioid substitution therapy for Scotland's prisoners on drug-related deaths soon after prisoner release.

scientific article published on May 2015

Impact of treatment for opioid dependence on fatal drug-related poisoning: a national cohort study in England

scientific article published on 09 October 2015

Incomplete contingency tables with censored cells with application to estimating the number of people who inject drugs in Scotland.

scientific article

Influence of alcohol on the progression of hepatitis C virus infection: a meta-analysis

scientific article

Injecting drug users in Scotland, 2006: Listing, number, demography, and opiate-related death-rates

scientific article published on 20 August 2012

Insights into the link between drug use and criminality: Lifetime offending of criminally-active opiate users

scientific article published on 16 August 2017

Male drugs-related deaths in the fortnight after release from prison: Scotland, 1996-99

scientific article published on 01 February 2003

Meta-analysis of drug-related deaths soon after release from prison

scientific article

Missing targets on drugs-related deaths, and a Scottish paradox

scientific article published on 07 November 2009

Modeling the current and future disease burden of hepatitis C among injection drug users in Scotland

scientific article published on September 2005

Modeling the initiation of others into injection drug use, using data from 2,500 injectors surveyed in Scotland during 2008-2009.

scientific article

Mortality of those who attended drug services in Scotland 1996-2006: record-linkage study

scientific article published on 30 June 2011

National record linkage study of mortality for a large cohort of opioid users ascertained by drug treatment or criminal justice sources in England, 2005-2009.

scientific article

Prevalence of recent fentanyl use among treated users of illicit opioids in England: based on piloted urine drug screens

scientific article published on 16 December 2018

Prior information in behavioral capture-recapture methods: demographic influences on drug injectors' propensity to be listed in data sources and their drug-related mortality

scientific article published on 24 August 2005

Prison-based prescriptions aid Scotland's National Naloxone Programme

scientific article published in March 2017

Quantifying crime associated with drug use among a large cohort of sanctioned offenders in England and Wales

scientific article published on 8 September 2015

Review of models used to predict the future numbers of individuals with severe hepatitis C disease: therapeutic and cost implications

scientific article published on December 2006

Scotland's 2009-2015 methadone-prescription cohort: quintiles for daily-dose of prescribed methadone and risk of methadone-specific death

scientific article published on 12 June 2020

Scotland's National Naloxone Programme

scientific article published on 01 January 2019

Statistical issues in first-in-human studies on BIA 10-2474: Neglected comparison of protocol against practice

scientific article published on 16 February 2017

Sudden rise in uptake of hepatitis B vaccination among injecting drug users associated with a universal vaccine programme in prisons

scientific article published on 01 November 2004

Take-home naloxone is a global issue, in practice and in research: A response to Heavey et al

scientific article published on 13 December 2018