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Assessment: A field test of three LQAS designs to assess the prevalence of acute malnutrition

Document type:	Article
Topic:	Malnutrition
Author:	Deitchler M, et al. Int J Epid
Date published:	May 2007

M Deitchler, JJ Valadez, K Egge, S Fernandez and M Hennigan. International Journal of Epidemiology 21 May 2007

Not an infant assessment tool yet but 3 Lot Quality Assurance sampling (LQAS) could be used more in the future compared to 30x30. This paper looks at LQAS, compares to 30 x 30 -its results are comparable and takes less resources, so may be used more in the future and potential for use with infants?

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