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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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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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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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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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 +12 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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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 +34 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 +2 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 +4 more
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Ascertaining cause of mortality among middle-aged and older persons using computer-coded and expert review verbal autopsies in the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study [PDF]
Global Health Action, 2020 Background Verbal autopsy is designed to ascertain causes of death that are not registered or certified. Verbal autopsy has been validated in multiple settings but has not been as widely evaluated for older populations as for younger age groups ...
Yuan S. Zhang +5 more
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