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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, Baiden, Doctor, Fienberg, Hosegood, International Working Group for Disease Monitoring and Forecasting, Jahn, Mathers, Roberts, Setel, World Health Organization   +10 more
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Analysis of Young Infant Deaths Using Verbal Autopsies and Accuracy of Verbal Autopsy Tool in Chennai, India

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 ...
R Usha, Devi, S Mangala, Bharathi, J, Kumutha   +2 more
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Collecting verbal autopsies: improving and streamlining data collection processes using electronic tablets

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, Andrea Stewart, Jonathan C. Joseph, Nurul Alam, Sayed Saidul Alam, Hafizur Chowdhury, Meghan D. Mooney, Rasika Rampatige, Hazel Remolador, Diozele Sanvictores, Peter T. Serina, Peter Kim Streatfield, Veronica Tallo, Christopher J. L. Murray, Bernardo Hernandez, Alan D. Lopez, Ian Douglas Riley   +16 more
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Use of Smartphone for Verbal Autopsy.

Asia-Pacific journal of public health, 2016
Traditionally, verbal autopsies (VA) are collected on paper-based questionnaires and reviewed by physicians for cause of death assignment, it is resource intensive and time consuming. The Population Health Metrics Research Consortium VA questionnaires was made available on an Android-based application and cause of death was derived using the Tariff ...
Zhao, Y, Joshi, R, Rampatige, R, Sun, J, Huang, L, Chen, S, Wu, R, Neal, B, Lopez, AD, Stewart, AL, Serina, PT, Li, C, Zhang, J, Zhang, J, Zhang, Y, Yan, LL   +15 more
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Adult non-communicable disease mortality in Africa and Asia: evidence from INDEPTH Health and Demographic Surveillance System sites. [PDF]

, 2014
BACKGROUND: Mortality from non-communicable diseases (NCDs) is a major global issue, as other categories of mortality have diminished and life expectancy has increased.
Adjei, A, Alam, N, Ansah, P, Bagagnan, CH, Bangha, M, Bauni, E, Bhuiya, A, Bonfoh, B, Byass, P, Chuc, NT, Crampin, A, Debpuur, C, Delaunay, V, Diallo, A, Douillot, L, Ezeh, A, Gomez, P, Gyapong, M, Gómez-Olivé, FX, Haile, F, Hanifi, SM, Herbst, K, Jasseh, M, Juvekar, S, Kahn, K, Kant, S, Khan, WA, Kone, S, Kyobutungi, C, Lankoandé, B, Laserson, KF, Lele, P, Melaku, YA, Misra, P, Mochamah, G, Mossong, J, Ndila, C, Ngoran, EK, Nyaguara, A, Nyirenda, M, Odhiambo, FO, Oduro, A, Oti, S, Phillips-Howard, P, Price, A, Rai, SK, Rossier, C, Sankoh, OA, Sarpong, D, Sié, A, Sokhna, C, Soura, AB, Streatfield, PK, Tollman, SM, Utzinger, J, Wak, G, Weldearegawi, B, Williams, TN, Zabré, P   +58 more
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Probabilistic Cause-of-Death Assignment Using Verbal Autopsies [PDF]

Journal of the American Statistical Association, 2016
In regions without complete-coverage civil registration and vital statistics systems there is uncertainty about even the most basic demographic indicators. In such regions the majority of deaths occur outside hospitals and are not recorded. Worldwide, fewer than one-third of deaths are assigned a cause, with the least information available from the ...
McCormick, Tyler H, Li, Zehang Richard, Calvert, Clara, Crampin, Amelia C, Kahn, Kathleen, Clark, Samuel J   +5 more
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Implementing and scaling verbal autopsies: into the unknown [PDF]

BMC Medicine, 2020
Please see related article: http://bmcmedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12916-020-01520-1.
Ross M. Boyce, Raquel Reyes
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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, Basia Zaba, Chifundo Kanjala, Clara Calvert, Denna Michael, Emma Slaymaker, Floyd S, Jim Todd, Kirkwood BR, Mark Urassa, Raphael Isingo, World Health Organization   +11 more
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Women can bear a bigger burden: ante- and post-mortem evidence for reserve in the face of tau. [PDF]

, 2020
In this study, we aimed to assess whether women are able to withstand more tau before exhibiting verbal memory impairment. Using data from 121 amyloid-β-positive Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative participants, we fit a linear model with Rey ...
Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative, Banks, Sarah J, Brewer, James B, Digma, Leonardino A, Jacobs, Diane M, Madsen, John R, Rissman, Robert A   +6 more
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Initiating a participatory action research process in the Agincourt health and socio–demographic surveillance site [PDF]

, 2017
Financial disclosure Funding: The research presented in this paper is funded by a Development Grant as part of the Health Systems Research Initiative from Department for International Development (DFID)/Medical Research Council (MRC)/Wellcome Trust ...
Byass, Peter, D'Ambruoso, Lucia, Kahn, Kathleen, Ngobeni, Sizzy, Spies, Barry, Tollman, Stephen, Twine, Rhian, Van Der Merwe, Maria, Wagner, Ryan G, Wariri, Oghenebrume   +9 more
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