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Monitoring progress with national and subnational health goals by integrating verbal autopsy and medically certified cause of death data [PDF]
Introduction The measurement of progress towards many Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) and other health goals requires accurate and timely all-cause and cause of death (COD) data.
Tim Adair +4 more
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Literature review of verbal autopsy [PDF]
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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Determining the cause of death through mortality surveillance using verbal autopsy in Karachi, Pakistan. [PDF]
Background In Pakistan, cultural and religious beliefs restrict autopsies, limiting their prevalence. Additionally, many deaths occur at home, outside of hospital systems, making cause-of-death (CoD) determination challenging. This study aims to overcome
Allana R +12 more
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Validity of verbal autopsy for ascertaining the causes of stillbirth
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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Level of evidence of verbal autopsy [PDF]
Prasanta Raghab Mohapatra
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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: current practices and challenges [PDF]
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.
Soleman Nadia +2 more
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Community perception of causes of death using verbal autopsy for diabetes mellitus in Saudi Arabia. [PDF]
Alyazidi F +4 more
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Verbal autopsy: who needs it? [PDF]
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 for Neurological Diseases [PDF]
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, H. Kalter
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