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A probabilistic sampling method (PSM) for estimating geographic distance to health services when only the region of residence is known

BACKGROUND: The need to estimate the distance from an individual to a service provider is common in public health research. However, estimated distances are often imprecise and, we suspect, biased due to a lack of specific residential location data. In many cases, to protect subject confidentiality,...

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Autores principales: Beyer, Kirsten MM, Saftlas, Audrey F, Wallis, Anne B, Peek-Asa, Corinne, Rushton, Gerard
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3024211/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21219638
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1476-072X-10-4