Measuring Coverage in MNCH: Total Survey Error and the Interpretation of Intervention Coverage Estimates from Household Surveys

PLoS Medicine

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Eisele, Thomas P ^a   Rhoda, Dale A ^b   Cutts, Felicity T ^c   Keating, Joseph ^a   Ren, Ruilin ^d   Barros, Aluisio J D ^e   Arnold, Fred ^d  

^a TULANE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BATTELLE MEMORIAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c Independent consultant ^*  (France)

^d ICF INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

^e FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PELOTAS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIMALARIAL AGENT;

DECISION MAKING; FEVER; HEALTH SURVEY; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; IMMUNIZATION; INTERVIEW; LOT QUALITY ASSURANCE SAMPLING; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRE; REVIEW; SAMPLING ERROR; TRAINING; ADULT; CHILD; CHILD HEALTH CARE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FAMILY SIZE; FEMALE; HEALTH; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH CARE SURVEY; HEALTH SERVICE; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; INFANT; MALE; METHODOLOGY; NEWBORN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; REPRODUCIBILITY; STANDARD; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICS;

ADULT; CHILD; CHILD HEALTH SERVICES; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MATERNAL HEALTH SERVICES; PROGRAM EVALUATION; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RESEARCH DESIGN; SELECTION BIAS; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 84878314491     PISSN: 15491277     EISSN: 15491676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1001386     Document Type: Review

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