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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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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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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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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: advancing science, facilitating application [PDF]

Population Health Metrics, 2011
Editorial Critical information on population health is needed to inform planning, resource allocation, program implementation, monitoring, and evaluation. One of the key descriptors of a population’s health is information about causes of death. Since many countries lack complete vital registration systems with medical certification of deaths, cause of ...
Shibuya Kenji, Lopez Alan D, Murray Christopher JL, Lozano Rafael   +3 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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Verbal autopsy: current practices and challenges [PDF]

Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 2006
Cause-of-death data derived from verbal autopsy (VA) are increasingly used for health planning, priority setting, monitoring and evaluation in countries with incomplete or no vital registration systems.
Soleman Nadia, Chandramohan Daniel, Shibuya Kenji   +2 more
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Validity of verbal autopsy for ascertaining the causes of stillbirth

Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 2011
OBJECTIVE: To validate the verbal autopsy tool for stillbirths of the World Health Organization (WHO) by using hospital diagnosis of the underlying cause of stillbirth (the gold standard) and to compare the fraction of stillbirths attributed to various ...
Arun K Aggarwal, Vanita Jain, Rajesh Kumar   +2 more
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Validation and validity of verbal autopsy procedures [PDF]

Population Health Metrics, 2011
Commentary Methods for interpreting verbal autopsy (VA) that have been validated fall into two major categories: (1) physician-certified verbal autopsy (PCVA), the commonlyused method in which one or more physicians ascertain causes of death based on their clinical judgment; and (2) computerized coding of verbal autopsy (CCVA), in which causes of death
Chandramohan Daniel
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New challenges for verbal autopsy: Considering the ethical and social implications of verbal autopsy methods in routine health information systems [PDF]

Social Science and Medicine, 2017
Verbal autopsy (VA) methods are designed to collect cause-of-death information from populations where many deaths occur outside of health facilities and where death certification is weak or absent. A VA consists of an interview with a relative or carer of a recently deceased individual in order to gather information on the signs and symptoms the ...
Hebe N Gouda, Abraham D Flaxman, Claire E Brolan   +2 more
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