Changes to the sample design and weighting methods of a public health surveillance system to also include persons not receiving HIV medical care.
Christopher H JohnsonLinda BeerR Lee HardingRonaldo IachanDavia MoyseAdam LeeTonja KylePranesh P ChowdhuryR Luke ShousePublished in: PloS one (2020)
MMPs weighting procedures reduced sample bias by leveraging auxiliary information on medical care available from the surveillance registry sampling frame. Expanding MMPs population of focus provides important information on characteristics of persons with diagnosed HIV that complement the information provided by the surveillance registry. MMP methods can be applied to other disease registries or population-monitoring systems when more detailed information is needed for a population, with the detailed information obtained efficiently from a representative sample of the population covered by the registry.