Verbal autopsy analysis of childhood deaths in rural Gambia. [PDF]
PLoS One, 2023 Background In low-resource settings, it is challenging to ascertain the burden and causes of under-5 mortality as many deaths occur outside health facilities.
Wutor BM +7 more
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Validation studies of verbal autopsy methods: a systematic review. [PDF]
BMC Public Health, 2022 Verbal autopsy (VA) has emerged as an increasingly popular technique to assign cause of death in parts of the world where the majority of deaths occur without proper medical certification.
Mahesh BPK +6 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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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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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.
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Verbal autopsy analysis of maternal mortality in Bong County, Liberia: a retrospective mixed methods study. [PDF]
BMJ Open Qual, 2023 Background While the medical contributors to maternal mortality are well known, the contextual contributors are less known and understudied. Liberia has one of the highest maternal mortality rates in sub-Saharan Africa, with recent increases in maternal ...
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Value of Verbal Autopsy in a Fragile Setting: Reported versus Estimated Community Deaths Associated with COVID-19, Banadir, Somalia. [PDF]
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
Afrah TA +10 more
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Strengthening causes of death identification through community-based verbal autopsy during the COVID-19 pandemic. [PDF]
BMC Public Health, 2022 Indonesia has not optimally provided complete and reliable civil registration and vital statistics (CRVS). Death certification is one of the elements of the CRVS system.
Siregar KN +7 more
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Verbal Autopsy as a Tool for Defining Causes of Death in Specific Healthcare Contexts: Study of Applicability through a Traditional Literature Review. [PDF]
Int J Environ Res Public Health, 2022 Autopsy examination, the gold standard for defining causes of death, is often difficult to apply in certain health care settings, especially in developing countries.
Bailo P +3 more
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The ethical implications of verbal autopsy: responding to emotional and moral distress. [PDF]
BMC Med 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.
Hinga A +4 more
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