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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.
Zehang Richard Li +4 more
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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.
Ross M. Boyce, Raquel Reyes
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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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Verbal Autopsy: Methods in Transition [PDF]
Epidemiologic Reviews, 2010 Understanding of global health and changing morbidity and mortality is limited by inadequate measurement of population health. With fewer than one-third of deaths worldwide being assigned a cause, this long-standing dearth of information, almost exclusively in the world's poorest countries, hinders understanding of population health and limits ...
Edward, Fottrell, Peter, Byass
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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, Henry D, Kalter
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Potential and limits of verbal autopsies. [PDF]
Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 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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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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Time for civil registration with verbal autopsy
The Lancet Global Health, 2014 Osman Sankoh, Peter Byass
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Verbal autopsy models in determining causes of death [PDF]
Tropical Medicine & International Health, 2021 AbstractObjectivesTo systematically review current practices, strengths and limitations of existing VA approaches to increase understanding of health system stakeholders and researchers.MethodsThe review was conducted and reported based on the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta‐Analysis (PRISMA) guidelines, in which articles ...
Mahadia, Tunga +3 more
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Verbal autopsy can consistently measure AIDS mortality: a validation study in Tanzania and Zimbabwe. [PDF]
, 2009 BACKGROUND: Verbal autopsy is currently the only option for obtaining cause of death information in most populations with a widespread HIV/AIDS epidemic.
Zaba, B +12 more
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