Laboratory exams of the National Health Survey: methodology of sampling, data collection and analysis.
Celia Szwarcwald LandmannDéborah Carvalho MaltaPaulo Roberto Borges de Souza JúniorWanessa da Silva de AlmeidaGiseli Nogueira DamacenaCimar Azeredo PereiraLuiz Gastão RosenfeldPublished in: Revista brasileira de epidemiologia = Brazilian journal of epidemiology (2019)
The total subsample of laboratory exams is of great value, since it allowed us to establish national reference parameters adequate to sociodemographic and geographic characteristics of the Brazilian population, providing relevant and complementary information for the analysis of the health situation of Brazil.