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Validation of verbal autopsy tool for ascertaining the causes of stillbirth. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2013 OBJECTIVE:To assess performance of the WHO revised verbal autopsy tool for ascertaining the causes of still birth in comparison with reference standard cause of death ascertained by standardized clinical and supportive data.
Sidrah Nausheen +12 more
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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 +2 more
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Validation studies of verbal autopsy methods: a systematic review. [PDF]
BMC Public Health, 2022 Abstract Background Verbal autopsy (VA) has emerged as an increasingly popular technique to assign cause of death in parts of the world where the majority of deaths occur without proper medical certification. The purpose of this study was to examine the key characteristics of studies that have attempted to validate VA ...
Mahesh BPK +6 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 +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.
Li, Zehang Richard +4 more
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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 +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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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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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 +16 more
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