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Automated versus physician assignment of cause of death for verbal autopsies: randomized trial of 9374 deaths in 117 villages in India

BMC Medicine, 2019
Background Verbal autopsies with physician assignment of cause of death (COD) are commonly used in settings where medical certification of deaths is uncommon. It remains unanswered if automated algorithms can replace physician assignment.
Prabhat Jha, Dinesh Kumar, Rajesh Dikshit, Atul Budukh, Rehana Begum, Prabha Sati, Patrycja Kolpak, Richard Wen, Shyamsundar J. Raithatha, Utkarsh Shah, Zehang Richard Li, Lukasz Aleksandrowicz, Prakash Shah, Kapila Piyasena, Tyler H. McCormick, Hellen Gelband, Samuel J. Clark   +16 more
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Care-seeking patterns amongst suspected paediatric pneumonia deaths in rural Malawi [version 1; peer review: 2 approved]

Gates Open Research, 2020
Background: Pneumonia remains a leading cause of paediatric deaths. To understand contextual challenges in care pathways, we explored patterns in care-seeking amongst children who died of pneumonia in Malawi.
Carina King, Masford Banda, Naor Bar-Zeev, James Beard, Neil French, Charles Makwenda, Eric McCollum, Malizani Mdala, Yasir Bin Nisar, Tambosi Phiri, Shamim Ahmad Qazi, Tim Colbourn   +11 more
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Age-specific malaria mortality rates in the KEMRI/CDC health and demographic surveillance system in western Kenya, 2003-2010. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2014
Recent global malaria burden modeling efforts have produced significantly different estimates, particularly in adult malaria mortality. To measure malaria control progress, accurate malaria burden estimates across age groups are necessary.
Meghna Desai, Ann M Buff, Sammy Khagayi, Peter Byass, Nyaguara Amek, Annemieke van Eijk, Laurence Slutsker, John Vulule, Frank O Odhiambo, Penelope A Phillips-Howard, Kimberly A Lindblade, Kayla F Laserson, Mary J Hamel   +12 more
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Malaria mortality in Africa and Asia: evidence from INDEPTH health and demographic surveillance system sites [PDF]

Global Health Action, 2014
Background: Malaria continues to be a major cause of infectious disease mortality in tropical regions. However, deaths from malaria are most often not individually documented, and as a result overall understanding of malaria epidemiology is inadequate ...
P. Kim Streatfield, Wasif A. Khan, Abbas Bhuiya, Syed M.A. Hanifi, Nurul Alam, Eric Diboulo, Ali Sié, Maurice Yé, Yacouba Compaoré, Abdramane B. Soura, Bassirou Bonfoh, Fabienne Jaeger, Eliezer K. Ngoran, Juerg Utzinger, Yohannes A. Melaku, Afework Mulugeta, Berhe Weldearegawi, Pierre Gomez, Momodou Jasseh, Abraham Hodgson, Abraham Oduro, Paul Welaga, John Williams, Elizabeth Awini, Fred N. Binka, Margaret Gyapong, Shashi Kant, Puneet Misra, Rahul Srivastava, Bharat Chaudhary, Sanjay Juvekar, Abdul Wahab, Siswanto Wilopo, Evasius Bauni, George Mochamah, Carolyne Ndila, Thomas N. Williams, Mary J. Hamel, Kim A. Lindblade, Frank O. Odhiambo, Laurence Slutsker, Alex Ezeh, Catherine Kyobutungi, Marylene Wamukoya, Valérie Delaunay, Aldiouma Diallo, Laetitia Douillot, Cheikh Sokhna, F. Xavier Gómez-Olivé, Chodziwadziwa W. Kabudula, Paul Mee, Kobus Herbst, Joël Mossong, Nguyen T.K. Chuc, Samuelina S. Arthur, Osman A. Sankoh, Marcel Tanner, Peter Byass   +57 more
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Verbal autopsy-assigned causes of death among adults being investigated for TB in South Africa [PDF]

Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 2016
Background Adults being investigated for TB in South Africa experience high mortality, yet causes of death (CoD) are not well defined. We determined CoD in this population using verbal autopsy (VA), and compared HIV- and TB-associated CoD using physician-
N. Maraba, A. Karat, K. McCarthy, G. Churchyard, S. Charalambous, K. Kahn, A. Grant, V. Chihota   +7 more
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Cause-specific mortality in the Kombewa health and demographic surveillance systems site, rural Western Kenya from 2011–2015

Global Health Action, 2018
Background: The vast majority of deaths in the health and Kombewa demographic surveillance system (HDSS) study area are not registered and reported through official systems of vital registration.
Peter Sifuna, Lucas Otieno, Sheila Ogwang, Bernhards Ogutu, Ben Andagalu, John Owuoth, Valentine Singoei, Jessica Cowden, Walter Otieno   +8 more
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Cause-specific mortality at INDEPTH Health and Demographic Surveillance System Sites in Africa and Asia: concluding synthesis [PDF]

Global Health Action, 2014
Methods: Developments in computerised methods to assign causes of death on the basis of data from verbal autopsy (VA) interviews have made possible these standardised analyses of over 110,000 deaths from 22 African and Asian Health and Demographic ...
Osman Sankoh, Peter Byass
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Under-Five Mortality in Buea Health District, Southwest Cameroon: Evidence from a Community-Based Birth Cohort Study of Rate, Causes, and Age-Specific Patterns

International Journal of Pediatrics, 2020
Background. Updating the knowledge base on the causes and patterns of under-five mortality (U5M) is crucial for the design of suitable interventions to improve survival of children under five. Objectives.
Ettamba Agborndip, Benjamin Momo Kadia, Domin Sone Majunda Ekaney, Lawrence Tanyi Mbuagbaw, Marie Therese Obama, Julius Atashili   +5 more
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Two decades of mortality change in rural northeast South Africa [PDF]

Global Health Action, 2014
Background: The MRC/Wits University Agincourt research centre, part of the INDEPTH Network, has documented mortality in a defined population in the rural northeast of South Africa for 20 years (1992–2011) using long-term health and socio-demographic ...
Chodziwadziwa W. Kabudula, Stephen Tollman, Paul Mee, Sizzy Ngobeni, Bernard Silaule, F. Xavier Gómez-Olivé, Mark Collinson, Kathleen Kahn, Peter Byass   +8 more
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A comparison of all-cause and cause-specific mortality by household socioeconomic status across seven INDEPTH network health and demographic surveillance systems in sub-Saharan Africa

Global Health Action, 2019
Background: Understanding socioeconomic disparities in all-cause and cause-specific mortality can help inform prevention and treatment strategies. Objectives: To quantify cause-specific mortality rates by socioeconomic status across seven health and ...
Matthew M. Coates, Mamusu Kamanda, Alexander Kintu, Iwara Arikpo, Alberto Chauque, Melkamu Merid Mengesha, Alison J. Price, Peter Sifuna, Marylene Wamukoya, Charfudin N. Sacoor, Sheila Ogwang, Nega Assefa, Amelia C. Crampin, Eusebio V. Macete, Catherine Kyobutungi, Martin M. Meremikwu, Walter Otieno, Kafui Adjaye-Gbewonyo, Andrew Marx, Peter Byass, Osman Sankoh, Gene Bukhman   +21 more
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