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Emerging Themes in Epidemiology, 2016 Background Verbal autopsy (VA) is a widely used technique for assigning causes to non-medically certified deaths using information gathered from a close caregiver. Both operational and cultural factors may cause delays in follow-up of deaths.
Laith Hussain-Alkhateeb +5 more
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Verbal Autopsy Methods with Multiple Causes of Death [PDF]
, 2008 Verbal autopsy procedures are widely used for estimating cause-specific mortality in areas without medical death certification. Data on symptoms reported by caregivers along with the cause of death are collected from a medical facility, and the cause-of ...
King, Gary, Lu, Ying
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Use of verbal autopsy and social autopsy in humanitarian crises [PDF]
BMJ Global Health, 2018 Introduction Two billion people live in countries affected by conflict, violence and fragility. These are exceptional situations in which mortality shifts dramatically and in which civil registration and vital statistics systems are often weakened or cease to function.
Lisa-Marie Thomas +2 more
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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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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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Accuracy of physicians in diagnosing HIV and AIDS-related death in the adult population of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia [PDF]
, 2012 Background: The lack of cause of death information is the main challenge in monitoring the effectiveness of interventions aimed at reducing HIV and AIDS-related deaths in countries where the majority of deaths occur at home.
Araya, Tekebash +3 more
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Population Health Metrics, 2011 Background Verbal autopsy is important for detecting causes of death including HIV in areas with inadequate vital registration systems. Before antiretroviral therapy (ART) introduction, a verbal autopsy study in rural Uganda found that half of adult ...
Mugisha Joseph O +7 more
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Accuracy of WHO verbal autopsy tool in determining major causes of neonatal deaths in India. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2013 OBJECTIVES: This study was conducted to evaluate the performance of World Health Organisation (WHO) verbal autopsy tool in determining major causes of neonatal deaths.
Arun K Aggarwal +3 more
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Evaluation of methods for assigning causes of death from verbal autopsies in India
Frontiers in Big Data, 2023 BackgroundPhysician-coded verbal autopsy (PCVA) is the most widely used method to determine causes of death (COD) in countries where medical certification of death is low.
Sudhir K. Benara +9 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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