TY - JOUR AU - Aceituno, Anna M. AU - Stanhope, Kaitlyn K. AU - Rebolledo, Paulina A. AU - Burke, Rachel M. AU - Revollo, Rita AU - IƱiguez, Volga AU - Suchdev, Parminder S. AU - Leon, Juan S. PY - 2017 DA - 2017/11/28 TI - Using a monitoring and evaluation framework to improve study efficiency and quality during a prospective cohort study in infants receiving rotavirus vaccination in El Alto, Bolivia: the Infant Nutrition, Inflammation, and Diarrheal Illness (NIDI) study JO - BMC Public Health SP - 911 VL - 17 IS - 1 AB - Implementing rigorous epidemiologic studies in low-resource settings involves challenges in participant recruitment and follow-up (e.g., mobile populations, distrust), biological sample collection (e.g., cold-chain, laboratory equipment scarcity) and data collection (e.g., literacy, staff training, and infrastructure). This article describes the use of a monitoring and evaluation (M&E) framework to improve study efficiency and quality during participant engagement, and biological sample and data collection in a longitudinal cohort study of Bolivian infants. SN - 1471-2458 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-017-4904-5 DO - 10.1186/s12889-017-4904-5 ID - Aceituno2017 ER -