Core verbal autopsy procedures with comparative validation results from two countries. [PDF]
, 2006 BACKGROUND: Cause-specific mortality statistics remain scarce for the majority of low-income countries, where the highest disease burdens are experienced.
Yusuf Hemed +35 more
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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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Comparison of physician-certified verbal autopsy with computer-coded verbal autopsy for cause of death assignment in hospitalized patients in low- and middle-income countries : systematic review [PDF]
, 2014 BACKGROUND: Computer-coded verbal autopsy (CCVA) methods to assign causes of death (CODs) for medically unattended deaths have been proposed as an alternative to physician-certified verbal autopsy (PCVA).
Leitao, Jordana +28 more
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Validity of verbal autopsy procedures for determining malaria deaths in different epidemiological settings in Uganda. [PDF]
, 2011 BACKGROUND: Verbal autopsy (VA) procedures can be used to estimate cause of death in settings with inadequate vital registries. However, the sensitivity of VA for determining malaria-specific mortality may be low, and may vary with transmission intensity.
Sarah G Staedke +31 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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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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Performance of four computer-coded verbal autopsy methods for cause of death assignment compared with physician coding on 24,000 deaths in low- and middle-income countries [PDF]
, 2014 BACKGROUND: Physician-coded verbal autopsy (PCVA) is the most widely used method to determine causes of death (CODs) in countries where medical certification of death is uncommon.
Leitao, Jordana +33 more
core +2 more sources
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
doaj +1 more source
Verbal autopsy completion rate and factors associated with undetermined cause of death in a rural resource-poor setting of Tanzania. [PDF]
, 2011 UNLABELLED\ud \ud ABSTRACT:\ud \ud BACKGROUND\ud \ud Verbal autopsy (VA) is a widely used tool to assign probable cause of death in areas with inadequate vital registration systems.
Mwanyangala Mathew A +26 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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