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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, H. Kalter
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PLoS Medicine, 2018 Background Verbal autopsy (VA) is a practical method for determining probable causes of death at the population level in places where systems for medical certification of cause of death are weak.
E. Nichols +10 more
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Prospects for automated diagnosis of verbal autopsies [PDF]
BMC Medicine, 2014 Verbal autopsy is a method for assessing probable causes of death from lay reporting of signs, symptoms and circumstances by family members or caregivers of a deceased person. Several methods of automated diagnoses of causes of death from standardized verbal autopsy questionnaires have been developed recently (Inter-VA, Tariff, Random Forest and King ...
Michel Garenne
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Setting international standards for verbal autopsy [PDF]
Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 2007 In many countries most deaths occur at home. Such countries often have civil registration systems that are limited or non-existent and therefore most deaths go unrecorded. Countries that cannot record the number of people who die or why they die cannot realize the full potential of their health systems.
Frank Baiden +22 more
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Correction: Use of verbal autopsy and social autopsy in humanitarian crises [PDF]
BMJ Global Health, 2018 [This corrects the article DOI: 10.1136/bmjgh-2017-000640.].
Lisa-Marie Thomas +2 more
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Using Machine Learning to Fuse Verbal Autopsy Narratives and Binary Features in the Analysis of Deaths from Hyperglycaemia [PDF]
arXiv.org, 2022 Lower-and-middle income countries are faced with challenges arising from a lack of data on cause of death (COD), which can limit decisions on population health and disease management.
Thokozile Manaka +3 more
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Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 2023 Objective To conduct a systematic review of verbal autopsy studies in low- and middle-income countries to estimate the fraction of deaths due to cardiovascular disease.
Ajay Acharya +4 more
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Population Health Metrics, 2011 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 ...
Peter Byass, 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 +4 more
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BMC Public Health, 2022 Nigeria has one of the highest under-five mortality rates in the world. Identifying the causes of these deaths is crucial to inform changes in policy documents, design and implementation of appropriate interventions to reduce these deaths.
Adeyinka Odejimi +10 more
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