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Verbal autopsy of 80,000 adult deaths in Tamilnadu, South India

BMC Public Health, 2004
Background Registration of the fact of death is almost complete in the city of Chennai and not so in the rural Villupuram district in Tamilnadu, India.
Peto Richard, Gajalakshmi Vendhan
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Supporting doctors' professional identity development through specialist training

Anatomical Sciences Education, EarlyView.
Abstract Anatomy‐centric specialties such as surgery, radiology, and anatomical pathology (AP) have workforce shortages, with attrition during the training phase proposed as a contributing factor. Current understanding of the reasons behind trainee attrition is limited, and there have been calls to increase the depth and richness of research in this ...
Shemona Y. Rozario, Melanie K. Farlie, Mahbub Sarkar, Michelle D. Lazarus   +3 more
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Validating the InterVA model to estimate the burden of mortality from verbal autopsy data: a population-based cross-sectional study. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2013
BACKGROUND: In countries with incomplete or no vital registration systems, verbal autopsy data are often reviewed by physicians in order to assign the probable cause of death.
Sebsibe Tadesse
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A Semantic-Based Framework for Verbal Autopsy to Identify the Cause of Maternal Death

Applied Clinical Informatics, 2021
Objective Verbal autopsy is a technique used to collect information about a decedent from his/her family members using questionnaires, conducting interviews, making observations, and sampling. In substantial parts of the world, particularly in Africa and
M. I. A. Durrani, Tabbasum Naz, M. Atif, Numra Khalid, Alessia Amelio   +4 more
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Parental Insightfulness and Its Association With Social Competence in Autistic and Non‐Autistic Children

Autism Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Parental insightfulness (PI), the parent's capacity to reflect upon their own and their child's mental and emotional states, has been associated with various aspects of children's socio‐emotional development. This study examined PI regarding child‐peer interactions and its association with social competence in autistic and non‐autistic (NA ...
Liron Oliver‐Aronson, Lital Kohn, Tali Gev, Ofer Golan   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Prescribing competence: The pros and cons of different methods for assessment

British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, EarlyView.
Evaluating a medical graduate’s competence in rational prescribing is challenging. With the aim to guide and inspire teachers, this narrative review explores different methods that can be used to assess prescribing competence. Each method has its own advantages and disadvantages, and thus a mix of different assessment methods is needed throughout the ...
David J. Brinkman, Erik M. Donker, Jelle Tichelaar, on behalf of the CP4T programme   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Limitations to current methods to estimate cause of death: a validation study of a verbal autopsy model

Gates Open Research, 2020
Background: Accurate information on causes of death (CoD) is essential to estimate burden of disease, track global progress, prioritize cost-effective interventions, and inform policies to reduce mortality.
C. Menéndez, L. Quintó, P. Castillo, C. Carrilho, Mamudo R Ismail, C. Lorenzoni, Fabiola Fernandes, J. Hurtado, N. Rakislova, K. Munguambe, Maria Maixenchs, E. Macete, I. Mandomando, M. Martínez, Q. Bassat, P. Alonso, J. Ordi   +16 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Burden of visceral leishmaniasis in villages of eastern gedaref state, Sudan: an exhaustive cross-sectional survey. [PDF]

, 2012
Since December 2009, Médecins Sans Frontières has diagnosed and treated patients with visceral leishmaniasis (VL) in Tabarak Allah Hospital, eastern Gedaref State, one of the main endemic foci of VL in Sudan.
A Ismail, A Stauch, AB Joshi, AM Musa, B Bucheton, CP Thakur, Dagemlidet Worku, DE Elnaiem, DE Elnaiem, EA Khalil, EE Zijlstra, EE Zijlstra, EE Zijlstra, EE Zijlstra, F Chappuis, Fabienne Nackers, François Chappuis, GK Adam, H Veeken, Hechmi Louzir, Himida Ali Gorashi, Jean-Claude Djoumessi, Jean-François Etard, JH Kolaczinski, K Ritmeijer, K Ritmeijer, K Ritmeijer, Khalid A. Ahmed, Koert Ritmeijer, Marleen Boelaert, Niven Salih, OF Osman, Omer Hammam, Rahma Eltigani, SE Meredith, Y Mueller, Yolanda Kathrin Mueller, ZM Luz   +37 more
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Pharmacogenomics in clinical practice: Biomarker information in Brazilian drug labels

British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, EarlyView.
This review examines the PGx annotations in package inserts (bulas in Brazilian Portuguese) approved by ANVISA, the Brazilian Health Regulatory Agency, for 19 gene–drug pairs with strong or moderate recommendations for initial dosing alteration in the CPIC (Clinical Pharmacogenetic Implementation Consortion) guidelines and PGx testing required or ...
Guilherme Suarez‐Kurtz
wiley   +1 more source

Classifying perinatal mortality using verbal autopsy: is there a role for nonphysicians?

Population Health Metrics, 2011
Background Because of a physician shortage in many low-income countries, the use of nonphysicians to classify perinatal mortality (stillbirth and early neonatal death) using verbal autopsy could be useful.
Wallace Dennis, McClure Elizabeth M, Tshefu Antoinette, Pasha Omrana, Chomba Elwyn, Mazariegos Manolo, Thorsten Vanessa, Phiri Mutinta, Garces Ana, Jehan Imtiaz, Ditekemena John, Engmann Cyril, Goldenberg Robert L, Carlo Waldemar A, Wright Linda L, Bose Carl   +15 more
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