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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: 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 ...
Peter Byass, Edward Fottrell
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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 ...
Juma H. Lungo +3 more
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Causes of mortality for Indonesian Hajj Pilgrims: comparison between routine death certificate and verbal autopsy findings. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2013 BACKGROUND: Indonesia provides the largest single source of pilgrims for the Hajj (10%). In the last two decades, mortality rates for Indonesian pilgrims ranged between 200-380 deaths per 100,000 pilgrims over the 10-week Hajj period.
Masdalina Pane +5 more
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Population Health Metrics, 2011 Background Verbal autopsy is important for detecting causes of death including HIV in areas with inadequate vital registration systems. Before antiretroviral therapy (ART) introduction, a verbal autopsy study in rural Uganda found that half of adult ...
Mugisha Joseph O +7 more
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Accuracy of WHO verbal autopsy tool in determining major causes of neonatal deaths in India. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2013 OBJECTIVES: This study was conducted to evaluate the performance of World Health Organisation (WHO) verbal autopsy tool in determining major causes of neonatal deaths.
Arun K Aggarwal +3 more
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Indian Pediatrics, 2021 To identify medical and non-medical factors associated with young infant deaths using verbal autopsies and to evaluate the validity of state verbal autopsy tool in identifying medical causes.Descriptive study to report factors associated with young infant deaths, and diagnostic accuracy study of the verbal autopsy tool.Prematurity related illnesses ...
J Kumutha +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 Trust/Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) (MR/N005597/1). We declare no competing interests.
Karin Källander +7 more
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BMC Medical Research Methodology, 2012 Background Verbal autopsy has been widely used to estimate causes of death in settings with inadequate vital registries, but little is known about its validity.
Misganaw Awoke +3 more
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Evaluation of methods for assigning causes of death from verbal autopsies in India
Frontiers in Big Data, 2023 BackgroundPhysician-coded verbal autopsy (PCVA) is the most widely used method to determine causes of death (COD) in countries where medical certification of death is low.
Sudhir K. Benara +9 more
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