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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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Validity of verbal autopsy for ascertaining the causes of stillbirth
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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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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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 +34 more
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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 +2 more
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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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Verbal autopsy of 80,000 adult deaths in Tamilnadu, South India [PDF]
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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Verbal autopsy in establishing cause of perinatal death
East African Medical Journal, 2002 Introduction: Perinatal mortality is a sensitive indicator of health status of a community and is also highly amenable to intervention. The causes of perinatal deaths in developing countries are often difficult to establish.
Iriya, N. +5 more
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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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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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