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IJE Advance Access originally published online on June 27, 2007
International Journal of Epidemiology 2007 36(4):864-865; doi:10.1093/ije/dym120
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Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the International Epidemiological Association © The Author 2007; all rights reserved.

Commentary: Learning to Love Lot Quality Assurance Sampling

Saul Morris

London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London WC1E 7HT.

E-mail: Saulsmorris@aol.com

Accepted 8 May 2007

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Nutrition surveys absorb significant human and financial resources in regions of the world where both are scarce—yet, often fail to produce useable results. In Ethiopia, for example, Spiegel and colleagues1 analysed 125 surveys and assessments conducted in 1999 and 2000, and found that of the 67 surveys that set out to use standard methods,2 just six could be considered valid and precise. Forty-two other surveys intentionally included less than the 900 children expected in the conventional 30 x 30 (30 children in each of 30 ‘clusters’) sample . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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