Designing verbal autopsy studies [PDF]
Population Health Metrics, 2010 Background Verbal autopsy analyses are widely used for estimating cause-specific mortality rates (CSMR) in the vast majority of the world without high-quality medical death registration.
Shibuya Kenji, Lu Ying, King Gary
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The openVA Toolkit for Verbal Autopsies [PDF]
The R Journal, 2023 Verbal autopsy (VA) is a survey-based tool widely used to infer cause of death (COD) in regions without complete-coverage civil registration and vital statistics systems. In such settings, many deaths happen outside of medical facilities and are not officially documented by a medical professional.
Zehang Li +4 more
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Agreement between cause of death assignment by computer-coded verbal autopsy methods and physician coding of verbal autopsy interviews in South Africa. [PDF]
Glob Health Action, 2023 Background The South African national cause of death validation (NCODV 2017/18) project collected a national sample of verbal autopsies (VA) with cause of death (COD) assignment by physician-coded VA (PCVA) and computer-coded VA (CCVA).
Groenewald P +7 more
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Effects of recall time on cause-of-death findings using verbal autopsy: empirical evidence from rural South Africa [PDF]
Emerging Themes in Epidemiology, 2016 Background Verbal autopsy (VA) is a widely used technique for assigning causes to non-medically certified deaths using information gathered from a close caregiver. Both operational and cultural factors may cause delays in follow-up of deaths.
Laith Hussain-Alkhateeb +5 more
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Verbal Autopsy to Assess Postdischarge Mortality in Children With Suspected Sepsis in Uganda. [PDF]
Pediatrics, 2023 BACKGROUND Reducing child mortality in low-income countries is constrained by a lack of vital statistics. In the absence of such data, verbal autopsies provide an acceptable method to determining attributable causes of death.
Knappett M +28 more
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Population Health Metrics, 2011 Commentary Wherever the field of verbal autopsy (VA) may be heading, the exciting and considerable extent of new work presented in this Population Health Metrics series clearly shows that the topic is not withering. The Global Congress on Verbal Autopsy held in Bali in February 2011 undoubtedly marked a significant milestone: VA has come of age as an ...
Byass Peter
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Correcting for Verbal Autopsy Misclassification Bias in Cause-Specific Mortality Estimates. [PDF]
Am J Trop Med Hyg, 2023 . Verbal autopsies (VAs) are extensively used to determine cause of death (COD) in many low- and middle-income countries. However, COD determination from VA can be inaccurate.
Fiksel J +13 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 +4 more
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Pathogens, 2023 Background: Accurate mortality data associated with infectious diseases such as coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) are often unavailable in countries with fragile health systems such as Somalia. We compared officially reported COVID-19 deaths in Somalia
Tahlil Abdi Afrah +10 more
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Multi-Cause Calibration of Verbal Autopsy-Based Cause-Specific Mortality Estimates of Children and Neonates in Mozambique. [PDF]
Am J Trop Med Hyg, 2023 . The Countrywide Mortality Surveillance for Action platform is collecting verbal autopsy (VA) records from a nationally representative sample in Mozambique.
Gilbert B +13 more
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