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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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Let's talk about death: data collection for verbal autopsies in a demographic and health surveillance site in Malaysia [PDF]
Global Health Action, 2015 Background: Verbal autopsies have gained considerable ground as an acceptable alternative to medically determined cause of death. Unlike with clinical or more administrative settings for data collection, verbal autopsies require significant involvement ...
Pascale A. Allotey +6 more
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Validity of verbal autopsy for ascertaining the causes of stillbirth
Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 2011 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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Rates and Causes of Death in Chiradzulu District, Malawi, 2008: A Key Informant Study [PDF]
, 2010 In September 2008, we measured all-cause mortality in Chiradzulu District, Malawi (population 291 000) over a 60-day retrospective period, using capture-recapture analysis of three lists of deaths provided by (i) key community informants, (ii) graveyard ...
Adjuik +10 more
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Population Health Metrics, 2011 Background Verbal autopsy can be a useful tool for generating cause of death data in data-sparse regions around the world. The Symptom Pattern (SP) Method is one promising approach to analyzing verbal autopsy data, but it has not been tested rigorously ...
Lozano Rafael +5 more
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Global Health Action, 2020 Background Verbal autopsy is designed to ascertain causes of death that are not registered or certified. Verbal autopsy has been validated in multiple settings but has not been as widely evaluated for older populations as for younger age groups ...
Yuan S. Zhang +5 more
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Patterns of age-specific mortality in children in endemic areas of sub-Saharan Africa. [PDF]
, 2007 Understanding of the age- and season- dependence of malaria mortality is an important prerequisite for epidemiologic models of malaria immunity. However, most studies of malaria mortality have aggregated their results into broad age groups and across ...
Abdullah, Salim +10 more
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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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Using HIV-attributable mortality to assess the impact of antiretroviral therapy on adult mortality in rural Tanzania. [PDF]
, 2014 BACKGROUND: The Tanzanian national HIV care and treatment programme has provided free antiretroviral therapy (ART) to HIV-positive persons since 2004.
Alison Wringe +11 more
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Population Health Metrics, 2011 Background Verbal autopsies provide valuable information for studying mortality patterns in populations that lack reliable vital registration data.
Murray Christopher JL +2 more
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