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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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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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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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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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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, Neal Bruce, Mehta Saurabh, Lucero Marilla, Lozano Rafael, Kumar Vishwajeet, Kumar Aarti, Kalter Henry, Joshi Rohina, Hernández Bernardo, Gómez Sara, Flaxman Abraham D, Fawzi Wafaie, Dutta Arup, Dhingra Usha, Das Vinita, Dantzer Emily, Dandona Lalit, Ali Said, Baqui Abdullah, Ahuja Ramesh, Black Robert, Lopez Alan D, Murray Christopher JL, Prasad Rajendra, Praveen Devarsetty, Premji Zul, Ramírez-Villalobos Dolores, Remolador Hazel, Riley Ian, Romero Minerva, Said Mwanaidi, Sanvictores Diozele, Sazawal Sunil, Tallo Veronica   +34 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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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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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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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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