Estimating Hidden Population Size of COVID-19 using Respondent-Driven Sampling Method - A Systematic Review.

SeyedAhmad SeyedAlinaghiArian AfzalianMohsen DashtiAfsaneh GhasemzadehZohal ParmoonRamin ShahidiSanaz VarshochiAva PashaeiSamaneh MohammadiFatemeh Khajeh AkhtaranAmirali KarimiKhadijeh NasiriEsmaeil MehraeenDaniel Hackett

Published in: Infectious disorders drug targets (2024)

In general, our study illustrates the efficacy of RDS in the estimation of undetected asymptomatic cases with high cost-effectiveness due to its relatively trouble-free and low-cost methods of sampling the population. This method would be valuable in probable future epidemics.

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low cost
coronavirus disease
sars cov
current status
infectious diseases