Balancing Theory and Practice in Respondent-Driven Sampling: A Case Study of Innovations Developed to Overcome Recruitment Challenges

• Hong-Ha M. Truong ,

  * E-mail: Hong-Ha.Truong@ucsf.edu

  Affiliations Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Gladstone Institute of Virology and Immunology, San Francisco, California, United States of America

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• Michael Grasso,

  Affiliation Department of Public Health, San Francisco, California, United States of America

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• Yea-Hung Chen,

  Affiliation Department of Public Health, San Francisco, California, United States of America

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• Timothy A. Kellogg,

  Affiliation Department of Public Health, San Francisco, California, United States of America

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• Tyler Robertson,

  Affiliation Department of Public Health, San Francisco, California, United States of America

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• Alberto Curotto,

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

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• Wayne T. Steward,

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

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• Willi McFarland

  Affiliation Department of Public Health, San Francisco, California, United States of America

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