Strengthening the Reporting of Observational Studies in Epidemiology for respondent-driven sampling studies: "sTROBE-RDS" statement

Journal of Clinical Epidemiology

Volumn 68, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 1463-1471

  White, Richard G ^a   Hakim, Avi J ^b   Salganik, Matthew J ^c   Spiller, Michael W ^b   Johnston, Lisa G ^d,e   Kerr, Ligia ^f   Kendall, Carl ^d   Drake, Amy ^b   Wilson, David ^g   Orroth, Kate ^a   Egger, Matthias ^h   Hladik, Wolfgang ^b  

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

^b CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^c PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d TULANE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF CEARÁ   (Brazil)

^g WORLD BANK   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Biomedical research methods; Cross sectional studies; Epidemiologic research design; Epidemiologic studies; Guidelines as topic; Guidelines as topic standards; Humans; Observation methods; Practice guidelines as topic; Publishing standards; Research design

Indexed keywords

CHECKLIST; CHINA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS PREVALENCE; INDIA; MEXICO; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PATIENT SELECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONDENT DRIVEN SAMPLING; REVIEW; SAMPLING; SOUTH AFRICA; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STUDY DESIGN; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; UNITED STATES; METHODOLOGY; QUESTIONNAIRE;

EPIDEMIOLOGIC RESEARCH DESIGN; HUMANS; OBSERVATIONAL STUDIES AS TOPIC; RESEARCH DESIGN; SAMPLING STUDIES; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 84948715155     PISSN: 08954356     EISSN: 18785921     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2015.04.002     Document Type: Review

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