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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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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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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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Verbal Autopsy Methods with Multiple Causes of Death [PDF]
Statistical Science, 2008 Verbal autopsy procedures are widely used for estimating cause-specific mortality in areas without medical death certification. Data on symptoms reported by caregivers along with the cause of death are collected from a medical facility, and the cause-of-death distribution is estimated in the population where only symptom data are available.
King, Gary, Lu, Ying
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Population Health Metrics, 2018 Background There is increasing interest in using verbal autopsy to produce nationally representative population-level estimates of causes of death. However, the burden of processing a large quantity of surveys collected with paper and pencil has been a ...
Abraham D. Flaxman +16 more
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Development of the Verbal Autopsy Instrument for COVID-19 (VAIC) [PDF]
Journal of General Internal Medicine, 2021 Improving accuracy of identification of COVID-19-related deaths is essential to public health surveillance and research. The verbal autopsy, an established strategy involving an interview with a decedent's caregiver or witness using a semi-structured questionnaire, may improve accurate counting of COVID-19-related deaths.To develop and pilot-test the ...
Tony Rosen +13 more
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Advances in verbal autopsy: pragmatic optimism or optimistic theory? [PDF]
Population Health Metrics, 2011 Commentary In recent decades, verbal autopsy (VA) methods have been increasingly used to identify likely causes of death in settings where the majority of deaths occur without medical attention or certification as to cause [1]. Developments in the 1980s and 1990s advanced the conceptual and methodological aspects of the science considerably but fell ...
Edward Fottrell, Edward Fottrell
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BMJ Global Health, 2023 Introduction Causes of deaths often go unrecorded in lower income countries, yet this information is critical. Verbal autopsy is a questionnaire interview with a family member or caregiver to elicit the symptoms and circumstances preceding a death and ...
Shaun K Morris +23 more
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Usefulness of the Population Health Metrics Research Consortium gold standard verbal autopsy data for general verbal autopsy methods [PDF]
BMC Medicine, 2014 Verbal Autopsy (VA) is widely viewed as the only immediate strategy for registering cause of death in much of Africa and Asia, where routine physician certification of deaths is not widely practiced. VA involves a lay interview with family or friends after a death, to record essential details of the circumstances.
Peter Byass, Peter Byass, Peter Byass
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Arthritis Care &Research, Accepted Article.Objective This study examined the global and regional temporal changes in cross‐country inequalities of site‐specific osteoarthritis (OA) burden from 1990 to 2021. Methods Age‐standardized years lived with disability rate for site‐specific OA across 204 countries/territories were obtained from the Global Burden of Diseases Study (GBD) 2021.
Haowei Chen +14 more
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