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Emerging Themes in Epidemiology BioMed Central Commentary Open Access Interpreting results of cluster surveys in emergency settings: is the LQAS test the best option? Oleg O Bilukha* and Curtis Blanton Address: Division of Emergency and Environmental Health Services, National Center for Environmental Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia 30341, USA Email: Oleg O Bilukha* - obilukha1@; Curtis Blanton - cblanton@ * Corresponding author Published: 9 December 2008 Received: 25 August 2008 Accepted: 9 December 2008 Emerging Themes in Epidemiology 2008, 5:25 doi:10.1186/1742-7622-5-25 This article is available from: /content/5/1/25 © 2008 Bilukha and Blanton; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Cluster surveys are commonly used in humanitarian emergencies to measure health and nutrition indicators. Deitchler et al. have proposed to use Lot Quality Assurance Sampling (LQAS) hypothesis testing in cluster surveys to classify the prevalence of global acute malnutrition as exceeding or not exceeding the pre-established thresholds. Field practitioners and decision-makers must clearly understand the meaning and implications of using this test in interpret