Journal article
Coverage and timeliness of vaccination and the validity of routine estimates: Insights from a vaccine registry in Kenya
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Background
The benefits of childhood vaccines are critically dependent on vaccination coverage. We used a vaccine registry (as gold standard) in Kenya to quantify errors in routine coverage methods (surveys and administrative reports), to estimate the magnitude of survivor bias, contrast coverage with timeliness and use both measures to estimate population immunity.
Methods
Vaccination records of children in the Kilifi Health and Demographic Surveillance System (K...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher copy:
- 10.1016/j.vaccine.2018.11.005
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- Publisher:
- Elsevier Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Vaccine Journal website
- Volume:
- 36
- Issue:
- 52
- Pages:
- 7965-7974
- Publication date:
- 2018-11-08
- Acceptance date:
- 2018-11-01
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1873-2518
- ISSN:
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0264-410X
- Pmid:
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30416017
- Source identifiers:
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946501
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- English
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pubs:946501
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uuid:0229ffa1-81c1-4c79-814a-660809723c89
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- pubs:946501
- Deposit date:
- 2019-01-08
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- Copyright holder:
- Adetifa et al
- Copyright date:
- 2018
- Notes:
- © 2018 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
- Licence:
- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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