KOLaide: A tool for selecting key opinion leaders under practical challenges
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When undertaking a community intervention, interventionists frequently recruit the help of community members who serve as key opinion leaders (KOLs). However, selecting a team of KOLs can be challenging because the evaluation of potential teams must balance considerations of members' availability and diversity, as well as the team's breadth of network coverage and cost of recruitment. In this paper, after reviewing these practical challenges, we introduce and demonstrate the KOLaide R package, which facilitates the selection of KOLs.
