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Potential and limits of verbal autopsies. [PDF]

Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 2006
The idea of assessing causes of death by retrospective interview is as old as medical statistics. In 17th century London, so-called death searchers visited the houses of people who had died to make enquiries about the death, especially about communicable diseases. In the 19th century, modern systems of death registration saw the end of this practice in
/Garenne, Michel, Fauveau, V.
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Causes of infant deaths and patterns of associated factors in Eastern Ethiopia: Results of verbal autopsy (InterVA-4) study

PLoS ONE, 2022
Background In a range of setting, detecting and generate empirical information on the cause of infant death and contributing risk factors at population level is basically utmost essential to take evidence-based measures in reducing infant morbidity and ...
Samuel Mebrahtom, A. Worku, D. Gage
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Estimating causes of death where there is no medical certification: evolution and state of the art of verbal autopsy

Global Health Action, 2021
Over the past 70 years, significant advances have been made in determining the causes of death in populations not served by official medical certification of cause at the time of death using a technique known as Verbal Autopsy (VA).
D. Chandramohan, E. Fottrell, Jordana Leitão, E. Nichols, S. Clark, Carine Alsokhn, D. Cobos Muñoz, C. AbouZahr, Aurelio Di Pasquale, R. Mswia, Eungang Choi, F. Baiden, Jason Thomas, Isaac Lyatuu, Z. Li, Patrick Larbi-Debrah, Yue Chu, Samuel Cheburet, O. Sankoh, Azza Mohamed Badr, Doris Ma Fat, P. Setel, Robert Jakob, D. de Savigny   +23 more
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Validation of verbal autopsy tool for ascertaining the causes of stillbirth. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2013
OBJECTIVE:To assess performance of the WHO revised verbal autopsy tool for ascertaining the causes of still birth in comparison with reference standard cause of death ascertained by standardized clinical and supportive data.
Sidrah Nausheen, Sajid B Soofi, Kamran Sadiq, Atif Habib, Ali Turab, Zahid Memon, M Imran Khan, Zamir Suhag, Zaid Bhatti, Imran Ahmed, Rajiv Bahl, Shireen Bhutta, Zulfiqar A Bhutta   +12 more
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Conducting verbal autopsy by telephone interview during the pandemic to support mortality surveillance: a feasibility study in Malaysia

Western Pacific surveillance and response journal : WPSAR, 2022
Objective Verbal autopsy (VA) through face-to-face interviews with caregivers is a way to determine cause of death without medical certification. In Malaysia, the use of VA has improved mortality statistics.
N. Nasaruddin, S. Ganapathy, S. Awaluddin, M. Anuar, Nazirah binti Alias, Chan Yee Mang, Khaw Wan-Fei   +6 more
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Use of verbal autopsy and social autopsy in humanitarian crises [PDF]

BMJ Global Health, 2018
Introduction Two billion people live in countries affected by conflict, violence and fragility. These are exceptional situations in which mortality shifts dramatically and in which civil registration and vital statistics systems are often weakened or cease to function.
Lisa-Marie Thomas, Lucia D’Ambruoso, Dina Balabanova   +2 more
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Burden of mortality from cancer among adults in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, using verbal autopsy, 2007–2017

ecancermedicalscience, 2022
Background: Cancer is one of the leading causes of death; worldwide, there were 10.0 million cancer deaths in 2020. In Ethiopia, 51,865 people died from the disease in the same year.
Tsion Afework, Birtukan Seid, Aderaw Anteneh, W. Ayele, S. Gebreyesus, B. Endris   +5 more
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Performance evaluation of machine learning and Computer Coded Verbal Autopsy (CCVA) algorithms for cause of death determination: A comparative analysis of data from rural South Africa

Frontiers in Public Health, 2022
Computer Coded Verbal Autopsy (CCVA) algorithms are commonly used to determine the cause of death (CoD) from questionnaire responses extracted from verbal autopsies (VAs).
M. Mapundu, C. Kabudula, E. Musenge, V. Olago, T. Celik   +4 more
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Using verbal autopsy to assess the prevalence of HIV infection among deaths in the ART period in rural Uganda: a prospective cohort study, 2006-2008

Population Health Metrics, 2011
Background Verbal autopsy is important for detecting causes of death including HIV in areas with inadequate vital registration systems. Before antiretroviral therapy (ART) introduction, a verbal autopsy study in rural Uganda found that half of adult ...
Mugisha Joseph O, Kibengo Freddie M, Nalweyiso Norah, Baisley Kathy, Mayanja Billy N, Van der Paal Lieve, Maher Dermot, Kaleebu Pontiano   +7 more
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Validation of physician certified verbal autopsy using conventional autopsy: a large study of adult non-external causes of death in a metropolitan area in Brazil

BMC Public Health, 2022
Background Reliable mortality data are essential for the development of public health policies. In Brazil, although there is a well-consolidated universal system for mortality data, the quality of information on causes of death (CoD) is not even among ...
C. D. D. de André, A. Bierrenbach, L. P. Barroso, Paulo A. de André, L. Justo, L. Pereira, Mauro T. Taniguchi, C. M. Minto, P. L. Takecian, L. T. Kamaura, J. E. Ferreira, R. Hazard, Deirdre McLaughlin, I. Riley, Alan D. Lopez, A. Ramos, Maria de Fatima Marinho de Souza, Elizabeth França, P. Saldiva, L. F. D. da Silva   +19 more
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