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Weight-for-age z-score as a proxy marker for diarrhoea in epidemiological studies

BACKGROUND: The validity of unblinded randomised trials testing interventions against diarrhoea is severely compromised by the potential for bias. Objective proxy markers for diarrhoea not relying on self-report are needed to assess the effect of interventions that cannot be blinded. Short-term chan...

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Autores principales: Schmidt, Wolf-Peter, Boisson, Sophie, Genser, Bernd, Barreto, Mauricio L, Baisley, Kathy, Filteau, Suzanne, Cairncross, Sandy
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BMJ Group 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2989158/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19955098
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/jech.2009.099721