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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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Core verbal autopsy procedures with comparative validation results from two countries.

PLoS Medicine, 2006
BackgroundCause-specific mortality statistics remain scarce for the majority of low-income countries, where the highest disease burdens are experienced. Neither facility-based information systems nor vital registration provide adequate or representative ...
Philip W Setel, Chalapati Rao, Yusuf Hemed, David R Whiting, Gonghuan Yang, Daniel Chandramohan, K G M M Alberti, Alan D Lopez   +7 more
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Malaria mortality in Africa and Asia: evidence from INDEPTH health and demographic surveillance system sites. [PDF]

, 2014
BACKGROUND: Malaria continues to be a major cause of infectious disease mortality in tropical regions. However, deaths from malaria are most often not individually documented, and as a result overall understanding of malaria epidemiology is inadequate ...
Alam, N, Arthur, SS, Awini, E, Bauni, E, Bhuiya, A, Binka, FN, Bonfoh, B, Byass, P, Chaudhary, B, Chuc, NT, Compaoré, Y, Delaunay, V, Diallo, A, Diboulo, E, Douillot, L, Ezeh, A, Gomez, P, Gyapong, M, Gómez-Olivé, FX, Hamel, MJ, Hanifi, SM, Herbst, K, Hodgson, A, Jaeger, F, Jasseh, M, Juvekar, S, Kabudula, CW, Kant, S, Khan, WA, Kyobutungi, C, Lindblade, KA, Mee, P, Melaku, YA, Misra, P, Mochamah, G, Mossong, J, Mulugeta, A, Ndila, C, Ngoran, EK, Odhiambo, FO, Oduro, A, Sankoh, OA, Sié, A, Slutsker, L, Sokhna, C, Soura, AB, Srivastava, R, Streatfield, PK, Tanner, M, Utzinger, J, Wahab, A, Wamukoya, M, Welaga, P, Weldearegawi, B, Williams, J, Williams, TN, Wilopo, S, Yé, M   +57 more
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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, Atakelti Abrha, John Kinsman, Anna Myléus, Peter Byass   +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, Edward Fottrell, Max Petzold, Kathleen Kahn, Peter Byass   +4 more
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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, Vicki Marsh, Amek Nyaguara, Marylene Wamukoya, Sassy Molyneux   +4 more
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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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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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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.
Li, Zehang Richard, Thomas, Jason, Choi, Eungang, McCormick, Tyler H., Clark, Samuel J.   +4 more
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Causes of death through verbal autopsy: findings from a sub-study of single dose oral cholera vaccination in urban Dhaka, Bangladesh

Journal of Global Health Reports, 2022
# Background Verbal autopsy can play a key crucial to identify significant causes of death in a developing country like Bangladesh where post-death pathological or forensic examination is not common.
Md. Taufiqul Islam, Md. Mazharul I. Zion, Md. Arifuzzaman Khan, Zahid H. Khan, Faisal Ahmmed, Shamim Ahmed, Azimuddin Ahmed, Afroza Akter, Fahima Chowdhury, Amit Saha, Nirod C. Saha, Deok R. Kim, Jean-Louis Excler, Julia Lynch, John D. Clemens, Firdausi Qadri, Ashraful I. Khan   +16 more
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