Field-based random sampling without a sampling frame: Control selection for a case-control study in rural Africa

Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 95, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 481-483

  Crampin, A C ^a,b   Mwinuka, V ^a   Malema, S S ^a   Glynn, J R ^b   Fine, P E M ^b  

^a KARONGA PREVENTION STUDY   (Malawi)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Case control studies; Control selection; HIV infections; Malawi; Methodology; Rural areas; Tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; AGE; ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION RESEARCH; RANDOMIZATION; RISK FACTOR; RURAL AREA; SAMPLING; SEX; TUBERCULOSIS;

BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MALAWI; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RURAL HEALTH; SELECTION BIAS; TUBERCULOSIS;

ACTINOBACTERIA (CLASS); MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; UNCULTURED ACTINOMYCETE;

EID: 0035467591     PISSN: 00359203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0035-9203(01)90009-4     Document Type: Article

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