Validation and validity of verbal autopsy procedures [PDF]
Population Health Metrics, 2011 Commentary Methods for interpreting verbal autopsy (VA) that have been validated fall into two major categories: (1) physician-certified verbal autopsy (PCVA), the commonlyused method in which one or more physicians ascertain causes of death based on their clinical judgment; and (2) computerized coding of verbal autopsy (CCVA), in which causes of death
Chandramohan Daniel
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How much does a verbal autopsy based mortality surveillance system cost in rural India?
PLoS ONE, 2015 ObjectiveThis paper aims to determine the cost of establishing and sustaining a verbal-autopsy based mortality surveillance system in rural India.Materials and methodsDeaths occurring in 45 villages (population 185,629) were documented over a 4-year ...
Rohina Joshi +6 more
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An integrated approach to processing WHO-2016 verbal autopsy data: the InterVA-5 model
BMC Medicine, 2019 Background Verbal autopsy is an increasingly important methodology for assigning causes to otherwise uncertified deaths, which amount to around 50% of global mortality and cause much uncertainty for health planning.
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Level of evidence of verbal autopsy [PDF]
The Lancet Global Health, 2016 Prasanta Raghab Mohapatra
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Commentary: Verbal autopsy procedure for adult deaths [PDF]
International Journal of Epidemiology, 2006 Vendhan Gajalakshmi, Richard Peto
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Effectiveness of Training and Perception Toward Mobile Application-based Verbal Autopsy among Sample Registration System Supervisors in an Eastern State of India. [PDF]
Indian J Community MedDebbarma S +5 more
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Computer assisted verbal autopsy: comparing large language models to physicians for assigning causes to 6939 deaths in Sierra Leone from 2019-2022. [PDF]
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Undertaking cause-specific mortality measurement in an unregistered population: an example from Tigray Region, Ethiopia [PDF]
Global Health Action, 2014 Background: The lack of adequate documentation of deaths, and particularly their cause, is often noted in African and Asian settings, but practical solutions for addressing the problem are not always clear.
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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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Local perceptions of causes of death in rural South Africa: a comparison of perceived and verbal autopsy causes of death [PDF]
Global Health Action, 2015 Background: Understanding how lay people perceive the causes of mortality and their associated risk factors is important for public health. In resource-limited settings, where verbal autopsy (VA) is used as the most expedient method of determining cause ...
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