The ethical implications of verbal autopsy: responding to emotional and moral distress [PDF]
BMC Medical 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.
Alex Hinga +4 more
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Validity of verbal autopsy for ascertaining the causes of stillbirth [PDF]
Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 2011 OBJECTIVE: To validate the verbal autopsy tool for stillbirths of the World Health Organization (WHO) by using hospital diagnosis of the underlying cause of stillbirth (the gold standard) and to compare the fraction of stillbirths attributed to various ...
Arun K Aggarwal +2 more
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Let's talk about death: data collection for verbal autopsies in a demographic and health surveillance site in Malaysia [PDF]
Global Health Action, 2015 Background: Verbal autopsies have gained considerable ground as an acceptable alternative to medically determined cause of death. Unlike with clinical or more administrative settings for data collection, verbal autopsies require significant involvement ...
Pascale A. Allotey +6 more
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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. We aimed to determine the causes of childhood deaths in rural Gambia using verbal autopsies (VA).
Wutor BM +7 more
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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
Tahlil Abdi Afrah +10 more
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Probabilistic Cause-of-death Assignment using Verbal Autopsies [PDF]
Journal of the American Statistical Association, 2014 In regions without complete-coverage civil registration and vital statistics systems there is uncertainty about even the most basic demographic indicators. In such regions the majority of deaths occur outside hospitals and are not recorded. Worldwide, fewer than one-third of deaths are assigned a cause, with the least information available from the ...
Tyler H. McCormick +5 more
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Correction: Use of verbal autopsy and social autopsy in humanitarian crises [PDF]
BMJ Global Health, 2018 [This corrects the article DOI: 10.1136/bmjgh-2017-000640.].
Lisa-Marie Thomas +2 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 +3 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 Introduction 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. Reliable data on death rates and causes serve as the basis for building
Kemal Nazarudin Siregar +7 more
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Validation and validity of verbal autopsy procedures [PDF]
Population Health Metrics, 2011 Commentary Methods for interpreting verbal autopsy (VA) that have been validated fall into two major categories: (1) physician-certified verbal autopsy (PCVA), the commonlyused method in which one or more physicians ascertain causes of death based on their clinical judgment; and (2) computerized coding of verbal autopsy (CCVA), in which causes of death
Chandramohan Daniel
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