Intervene before leaving: Clustered lot quality assurance sampling to monitor vaccination coverage at health district level before the end of a yellow fever and measles vaccination campaign in Sierra Leone in 2009

BMC Public Health

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Pezzoli, Lorenzo ^a   Conteh, Ishata ^a   Kamara, Wogba ^b   Gacic Dobo, Marta ^a   Ronveaux, Olivier ^a   Perea, William A ^a   Lewis, Rosamund F ^a  

^a WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^b World Health Organization ^*  (Sierra Leone)

Author keywords

Africa; Clustered lot quality assurance sampling (C LQAS); Measles vaccine; Monitoring; Sierra Leone; Vaccination coverage; Yellow fever vaccine

Indexed keywords

MEASLES VACCINE; YELLOW FEVER VACCINE;

ARTICLE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; INFANT; LOT QUALITY ASSURANCE SAMPLING; MEASLES; METHODOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVENTIVE HEALTH SERVICE; SIERRA LEONE; STANDARD; STATISTICS; VACCINATION; YELLOW FEVER;

CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; HUMANS; IMMUNIZATION PROGRAMS; INFANT; LOT QUALITY ASSURANCE SAMPLING; MEASLES; MEASLES VACCINE; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; SIERRA LEONE; VACCINATION; YELLOW FEVER; YELLOW FEVER VACCINE;

EID: 84861866199     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-12-415     Document Type: Article

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