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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, Lopez Alan D, Murray Christopher JL, Lozano Rafael   +3 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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Methodological trends in studies based on verbal autopsies before and after published guidelines

Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 2009
OBJECTIVE: To report on the uptake of guidelines published in the early 1990s with specific recommendations about the design of future studies based on verbal autopsy conducted for mortality surveillance.
Rohina Joshi, Andre Pascal Kengne, Bruce Neal   +2 more
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The case for verbal autopsy in health systems strengthening [PDF]

The Lancet Global Health, 2017
This Comment is based on a round-table discussion held at University College London on Oct 17, 2016, funded by a Health Systems Research Initiative grant from the UK Department for International Development (DFID)/Medical Research Council (MRC)/Wellcome ...
Boerma, Ties, Byass, Peter, D'Ambruoso, Lucia, Fottrell, Edward, Herbst, Kobus, Källander, Karin, Mullan, Zoë   +6 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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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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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 [PDF]

Bulletin of the World Health Organisation, 2006
Cause-of-death data derived from verbal autopsy (VA) are increasingly used for health planning, priority setting, monitoring and evaluation in countries with incomplete or no vital registration systems. In some regions of the world it is the only method available to obtain estimates on the distribution of causes of death.
Soleman, Nadia, Chandramohan, Daniel, Shibuya, Kenji   +2 more
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Potential and limits of verbal autopsies [PDF]

Bulletin of the World Health Organisation, 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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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.
Raquel Reyes, Ross M. Boyce
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