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Bayesian Nested Latent Class Models for Cause-of-Death Assignment using Verbal Autopsies Across Multiple Domains [PDF]
arXiv, 2021 Understanding cause-specific mortality rates is crucial for monitoring population health and designing public health interventions. Worldwide, two-thirds of deaths do not have a cause assigned. Verbal autopsy (VA) is a well-established tool to collect information describing deaths outside of hospitals by conducting surveys to caregivers of a deceased ...
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Journal of Immunotherapy for Cancer, 2016 BackgroundImmune checkpoint inhibitors targeting cytotoxic T-lymphocyte-associated protein 4 (CTLA-4) and programmed cell death protein 1 (PD-1) have been recently approved for treatment of patients with metastatic melanoma and non-small cell lung cancer
V. Koelzer +9 more
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Verbal Autopsy in Civil Registration and Vital Statistics: The Symptom-Cause Information Archive [PDF]
arXiv, 2019 The burden of disease is fundamental to understanding, prioritizing, and monitoring public health interventions. Cause of death is required to calculate the burden of disease, but in many parts of the developing world deaths are neither detected nor given a cause.
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Improving Cause-of-Death Classification from Verbal Autopsy Reports [PDF]
arXiv, 2022 In many lower-and-middle income countries including South Africa, data access in health facilities is restricted due to patient privacy and confidentiality policies. Further, since clinical data is unique to individual institutions and laboratories, there are insufficient data annotation standards and conventions. As a result of the scarcity of textual
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Cryptococcus, Pathological observations of five autopsy cases and one biopsy case [PDF]
, 1959 Pathologic, anatomical, and histological findings of 5 autopsy cases and one biopsy case of cryptococcosis have been described. Macroscopically the foci of the lung are grayish white or yellowish white in color and range in size from the small acinous ...
Inohara, Tsuyoshi +5 more
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Autopsy validation of 123I-FP-CIT dopaminergic neuroimaging for the diagnosis of DLB
Neurology, 2017 Objective: To conduct a validation study of 123I-N-fluoropropyl-2b-carbomethoxy-3b-(4-iodophenyl) nortropane (123I-FP-CIT) SPECT dopaminergic imaging in the clinical diagnosis of dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) with autopsy as the gold standard. Methods:
Alan J. Thomas +9 more
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The Autopsy, medicine, and mortality statistics [PDF]
"Articles previously published separately in Archives of Internal Medicine. Randy Hanzlick, M.D. (Editor) and the Autopsy Committee of the College of American Pathologists.
College of American Pathologists Autopsy Committee.
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Visual Informatics, 2022 Autopsy reports play a pivotal role in forensic science. Medical examiners (MEs) and diagnostic radiologists (DRs) cross-reference autopsy results in the form of autopsy reports, while judicial personnel derive legal documents from final autopsy reports.
Baoqing Wang +2 more
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Revising the WHO verbal autopsy instrument to facilitate routine cause-of-death monitoring. [PDF]
, 2013 OBJECTIVE: Verbal autopsy (VA) is a systematic approach for determining causes of death (CoD) in populations without routine medical certification. It has mainly been used in research contexts and involved relatively lengthy interviews.
Abraham Hodgson +75 more
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PLoS ONE, 2018 Background Perinatal and paediatric autopsy rates are at historically low levels with declining uptake due to dislike of the invasiveness of the procedure, and religious objections particularly amongst Muslim and Jewish parents.
C. Lewis +8 more
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