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Verbal autopsy: who needs it? [PDF]

Population Health Metrics, 2011
Commentary Verbal autopsy has long been used to generate mortality data, often with the needs of specific programs, such as child and maternal mortality, in mind [1,2]. This led to a proliferation of instruments and the resulting data were rarely comparable across research sites or over time [3].
AbouZahr Carla
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Validation of verbal autopsy tool for ascertaining the causes of stillbirth. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2013
OBJECTIVE:To assess performance of the WHO revised verbal autopsy tool for ascertaining the causes of still birth in comparison with reference standard cause of death ascertained by standardized clinical and supportive data.
Sidrah Nausheen, Sajid B Soofi, Kamran Sadiq, Atif Habib, Ali Turab, Zahid Memon, M Imran Khan, Zamir Suhag, Zaid Bhatti, Imran Ahmed, Rajiv Bahl, Shireen Bhutta, Zulfiqar A Bhutta   +12 more
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Population Health Metrics Research Consortium gold standard verbal autopsy validation study: design, implementation, and development of analysis datasets [PDF]

Population Health Metrics, 2011
Background Verbal autopsy methods are critically important for evaluating the leading causes of death in populations without adequate vital registration systems. With a myriad of analytical and data collection approaches, it is essential to create a high
Ohno Summer, Neal Bruce, Mehta Saurabh, Lucero Marilla, Lozano Rafael, Kumar Vishwajeet, Kumar Aarti, Kalter Henry, Joshi Rohina, Hernández Bernardo, Gómez Sara, Flaxman Abraham D, Fawzi Wafaie, Dutta Arup, Dhingra Usha, Das Vinita, Dantzer Emily, Dandona Lalit, Ali Said, Baqui Abdullah, Ahuja Ramesh, Black Robert, Lopez Alan D, Murray Christopher JL, Prasad Rajendra, Praveen Devarsetty, Premji Zul, Ramírez-Villalobos Dolores, Remolador Hazel, Riley Ian, Romero Minerva, Said Mwanaidi, Sanvictores Diozele, Sazawal Sunil, Tallo Veronica   +34 more
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Undertaking cause-specific mortality measurement in an unregistered population: an example from Tigray Region, Ethiopia [PDF]

Global Health Action, 2014
Background: The lack of adequate documentation of deaths, and particularly their cause, is often noted in African and Asian settings, but practical solutions for addressing the problem are not always clear.
Hagos Godefay, Atakelti Abrha, John Kinsman, Anna Myléus, Peter Byass   +4 more
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Comparing verbal autopsy cause of death findings as determined by physician coding and probabilistic modelling: a public health analysis of 54 000 deaths in Africa and Asia [PDF]

Journal of Global Health, 2015
Background: Coverage of civil registration and vital statistics varies globally, with most deaths in Africa and Asia remaining either unregistered or registered without cause of death.
Peter Byass , Kobus Herbst, Edward Fottrell , Mohamed M. Ali, Frank Odhiambo, Nyaguara Amek, Mary J. Hamel, Kayla F. Laserson, Kathleen Kahn, Chodziwadziwa Kabudula, Chodziwadziwa Kabudula, Paul Mee, Jon Bird, Robert Jakob , Osman Sankoh , Stephen M. Tollman   +15 more
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Local perceptions of causes of death in rural South Africa: a comparison of perceived and verbal autopsy causes of death [PDF]

Global Health Action, 2015
Background: Understanding how lay people perceive the causes of mortality and their associated risk factors is important for public health. In resource-limited settings, where verbal autopsy (VA) is used as the most expedient method of determining cause ...
Laith Hussain-Alkhateeb, Edward Fottrell, Max Petzold, Kathleen Kahn, Peter Byass   +4 more
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The ethical implications of verbal autopsy: responding to emotional and moral distress

BMC Medical Ethics, 2021
Background Verbal autopsy is a pragmatic approach for generating cause-of-death data in contexts without well-functioning civil registration and vital statistics systems.
Alex Hinga, Vicki Marsh, Amek Nyaguara, Marylene Wamukoya, Sassy Molyneux   +4 more
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Malaria mortality in Africa and Asia: evidence from INDEPTH health and demographic surveillance system sites. [PDF]

, 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 ...
Alam, N, Arthur, SS, Awini, E, Bauni, E, Bhuiya, A, Binka, FN, Bonfoh, B, Byass, P, Chaudhary, B, Chuc, NT, Compaoré, Y, Delaunay, V, Diallo, A, Diboulo, E, Douillot, L, Ezeh, A, Gomez, P, Gyapong, M, Gómez-Olivé, FX, Hamel, MJ, Hanifi, SM, Herbst, K, Hodgson, A, Jaeger, F, Jasseh, M, Juvekar, S, Kabudula, CW, Kant, S, Khan, WA, Kyobutungi, C, Lindblade, KA, Mee, P, Melaku, YA, Misra, P, Mochamah, G, Mossong, J, Mulugeta, A, Ndila, C, Ngoran, EK, Odhiambo, FO, Oduro, A, Sankoh, OA, Sié, A, Slutsker, L, Sokhna, C, Soura, AB, Srivastava, R, Streatfield, PK, Tanner, M, Utzinger, J, Wahab, A, Wamukoya, M, Welaga, P, Weldearegawi, B, Williams, J, Williams, TN, Wilopo, S, Yé, M   +57 more
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Causes of death through verbal autopsy: findings from a sub-study of single dose oral cholera vaccination in urban Dhaka, Bangladesh

Journal of Global Health Reports, 2022
# Background Verbal autopsy can play a key crucial to identify significant causes of death in a developing country like Bangladesh where post-death pathological or forensic examination is not common.
Md. Taufiqul Islam, Md. Mazharul I. Zion, Md. Arifuzzaman Khan, Zahid H. Khan, Faisal Ahmmed, Shamim Ahmed, Azimuddin Ahmed, Afroza Akter, Fahima Chowdhury, Amit Saha, Nirod C. Saha, Deok R. Kim, Jean-Louis Excler, Julia Lynch, John D. Clemens, Firdausi Qadri, Ashraful I. Khan   +16 more
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Causes of mortality for Indonesian Hajj Pilgrims: comparison between routine death certificate and verbal autopsy findings. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2013
BACKGROUND: Indonesia provides the largest single source of pilgrims for the Hajj (10%). In the last two decades, mortality rates for Indonesian pilgrims ranged between 200-380 deaths per 100,000 pilgrims over the 10-week Hajj period.
Masdalina Pane, Sholah Imari, Qomariah Alwi, I Nyoman Kandun, Alex R Cook, Gina Samaan   +5 more
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