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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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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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Setting international standards for verbal autopsy [PDF]

Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 2007
In many countries most deaths occur at home. Such countries often have civil registration systems that are limited or non-existent and therefore most deaths go unrecorded. Countries that cannot record the number of people who die or why they die cannot realize the full potential of their health systems.
Frank Baiden, Ayaga Bawah, Sidu Biai, Fred Binka, Ties Boerma, Peter Byass, Daniel Chandramohan, Somnath Chatterji, Cyril Engmann, Dieltiens Greet, Robert Jakob, Kathleen Kahn, Osamu Kunii, Alan D Lopez, Christopher J L Murray, Bernard Nahlen, Chalapati Rao, Osman Sankoh, Philip W Setel, Kenji Shibuya, Nadia Soleman, Linda Wright, Gonghuan Yang   +22 more
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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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Whither verbal autopsy? [PDF]

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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Using verbal autopsy to assess the prevalence of HIV infection among deaths in the ART period in rural Uganda: a prospective cohort study, 2006-2008 [PDF]

Population Health Metrics, 2011
Background Verbal autopsy is important for detecting causes of death including HIV in areas with inadequate vital registration systems. Before antiretroviral therapy (ART) introduction, a verbal autopsy study in rural Uganda found that half of adult ...
Mugisha Joseph O, Kibengo Freddie M, Nalweyiso Norah, Baisley Kathy, Mayanja Billy N, Van der Paal Lieve, Maher Dermot, Kaleebu Pontiano   +7 more
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Literature review of verbal autopsy [PDF]

JKKI (Jurnal Kedokteran dan Kesehatan Indonesia), 2020
An sudden death is a case that occurs without prior health complaints, so that its cause cannot be identified. On a death certificate, a doctor needs to state a cause of death, so an autopsy is usually required to confirm the cause of the sudden death ...
Eriliana Aryanti, Dhian Kartikasari, Tommy Kristanto   +2 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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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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Verbal Autopsy for Neurological Diseases [PDF]

The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 2012
Verbal autopsy is an interview-based technique to determine the cause distribution of death in a population. The use of verbal autopsy for understanding neurological diseases is crucial to burden of disease analyses in many countries, particularly in locations where civil registration systems are non-functioning or absent.
Farrah J. Mateen, H. Kalter
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