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Validation of verbal autopsy procedures for adult deaths in China [PDF]

, 2005
Gonghuan Yang, Chalapati Rao, Jiemin Ma, Lijun Wang, Xia Wan, Guillermo Dubrovsky, Alan D López   +6 more
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Childhood deaths in Africa: uses and limitations of verbal autopsies

The Lancet, 1992
The verbal autopsy (VA) is an epidemiological tool that is widely used to ascribe causes of death by interviewing bereaved relatives of children who were not under medical supervision at the time of death. This technique was assessed by comparison with a prospective survey of 303 childhood deaths at a district hospital in Kenya where medically ...
R.W. Snow, M.T. Winstanley, V.M. Marsh, CRJC. Newton, C. Waruiru, I. Mwangi, P.A. Winstanley, K. Marsh, R.W. Snow, D. Forster, P.A. Winstanley, K. Marsh, J.R.M. Armstrong   +12 more
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The etiology of maternal mortality in developing countries: what do verbal autopsies tell us?

Bulletin of the World Health Organization
OBJECTIVE: To reassess the practical value of verbal autopsy data, which, in the absence of more definitive information, have been used to describe the causes of maternal mortality and to identify priorities in programmes intended to save women's lives ...
Nancy L. Sloan, A. Langer, B. Hernandez, M. Romero, B. Winikoff   +4 more
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Comparing tariff and medical assistant assigned causes of death from verbal autopsy interviews in Matlab, Bangladesh: implications for a health and demographic surveillance system

Population Health Metrics, 2018
Background Deaths in developing countries often occur outside health facilities, making it extremely difficult to gather reliable cause of death (COD) information.
Riley H. Hazard, Nurul Alam, Hafizur Rahman Chowdhury, Tim Adair, Saidul Alam, Peter Kim Streatfield, Ian Douglas Riley, Alan D. Lopez   +7 more
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Malaria-related mortality based on verbal autopsy in an area of low endemicity in a predominantly rural population in Ethiopia [PDF]

, 2007
Wakgari Deressa, Mesganaw Fantahun, Ahmed Ali   +2 more
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Using verbal autopsy to ascertain perinatal cause of death: are trained non‐physicians adequate? [PDF]

, 2009
Cyril Engmann, I. Jehan, John Ditekemena, André Emilio Viñán Garcés, Mutinta Phiri, Manolo Mazariegos, E. Chomba, Omrana Pasha, Antoinette Tshefu, Yusuf Hemed, Elizabeth M. McClure, Vanessa Thorsten, Carla Bann, Renato Goldenberg, Christine Bose, Philip Setel, WA Carlo, L L Wright   +17 more
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Mortality patterns in Vietnam, 2006: Findings from a national verbal autopsy survey [PDF]

, 2010
Anh Ngo, Chalapati Rao, Nguyen Phuong Hoa, Tim Adair, Nguyễn Thị Kim Chúc   +4 more
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Adult mortality in a rural area of Senegal [PDF]

This study provides original estimates of adult mortality in Mlomp, a rural population of Senegal which has been monitored for twenty years. Causes of death are assessed through verbal autopsies which are completed by medical information. Between ages 15
Gilles Pison, Géraldine Duthé
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Verbal autopsy: current practices and challenges

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
doaj  

Using verbal autopsy to track epidemic dynamics: the case of HIV-related mortality in South Africa [PDF]

, 2011
Peter Byass, Kathleen Kahn, Edward Fottrell, Paul Mee, Mark Collinson, Stephen Tollman   +5 more
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