Reliability of measurements performed by community-drawn anthropometrists from rural Ethiopia

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Ayele, Berhan ^a   Aemere, Abaineh ^b   Gebre, Teshome ^a   Tadesse, Zerihun ^a   Stoller, Nicole E ^c   See, Craig W ^c   Yu, Sun N ^c   Gaynor, Bruce D ^c,d   McCulloch, Charles E ^d   Porco, Travis C ^c,d   Emerson, Paul M ^a   Lietman, Thomas M ^c,d   Keenan, Jeremy D ^c,d  

^a CARTER CENTER   (United States)

^b Goncha Siso Enese Woreda Health Office   (Ethiopia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOMETRY; ARM CIRCUMFERENCE; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD; CHILD NUTRITION; COMMUNITY ASSESSMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ETHIOPIA; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMAN; INTEROBSERVER RELIABILITY; INTRAOBSERVER RELIABILITY; MEDICAL ERROR; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RELIABILITY; REPRODUCIBILITY; RURAL HEALTH CARE; DEMOGRAPHY; EDUCATION; EVALUATION; INFANT; METHODOLOGY; MORPHOMETRICS; NEWBORN; OBSERVER VARIATION; PHYSIOLOGY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RURAL POPULATION; STANDARD; STATISTICS;

ANTHROPOMETRY; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; BODY WEIGHTS AND MEASURES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EDUCATION; ETHIOPIA; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; OBSERVER VARIATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; RURAL POPULATION;

EID: 84856200835     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0030345     Document Type: Article

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