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New challenges for verbal autopsy: Considering the ethical and social implications of verbal autopsy methods in routine health information systems [PDF]
Social Science and Medicine, 2017 Verbal autopsy (VA) methods are designed to collect cause-of-death information from populations where many deaths occur outside of health facilities and where death certification is weak or absent. A VA consists of an interview with a relative or carer of a recently deceased individual in order to gather information on the signs and symptoms the ...
Alan D Lopez +2 more
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Application of the verbal autopsy during a clinical trial
Social Science and Medicine, 1990 During a community-based treatment trial of onchocerciasis with ivermectin, verbal autopsies were employed as one method to assess the safety of the drug. The verbal autopsy questionnaire was designed to determine causes of death and mortality differentials in the treated population.
Hugh R Taylor
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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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The openVA Toolkit for Verbal Autopsies
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 Richard Li +4 more
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Local perceptions of causes of death in rural South Africa: a comparison of perceived and verbal autopsy causes of death [PDF]
Global Health Action, 2015 Background: Understanding how lay people perceive the causes of mortality and their associated risk factors is important for public health. In resource-limited settings, where verbal autopsy (VA) is used as the most expedient method of determining cause ...
Laith Hussain-Alkhateeb +4 more
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Implementing and scaling verbal autopsies: into the unknown [PDF]
BMC Medicine, 2020 Please see related article: http://bmcmedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12916-020-01520-1.
Ross M. Boyce, Raquel Reyes
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The ethical implications of verbal autopsy: responding to emotional and moral distress
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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Verbal Autopsy: Methods in Transition [PDF]
Epidemiologic Reviews, 2010 Understanding of global health and changing morbidity and mortality is limited by inadequate measurement of population health. With fewer than one-third of deaths worldwide being assigned a cause, this long-standing dearth of information, almost exclusively in the world's poorest countries, hinders understanding of population health and limits ...
Edward, Fottrell, Peter, Byass
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Verbal Autopsy for Neurological Diseases [PDF]
The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 2012 Verbal autopsy is an interview-based technique to determine the cause distribution of death in a population. The use of verbal autopsy for understanding neurological diseases is crucial to burden of disease analyses in many countries, particularly in locations where civil registration systems are non-functioning or absent.
Farrah J, Mateen, Henry D, Kalter
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Potential and limits of verbal autopsies. [PDF]
Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 2006 The idea of assessing causes of death by retrospective interview is as old as medical statistics. In 17th century London, so-called death searchers visited the houses of people who had died to make enquiries about the death, especially about communicable diseases. In the 19th century, modern systems of death registration saw the end of this practice in
/Garenne, Michel, Fauveau, V.
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