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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
openaire   +5 more sources

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, Praveen Kumar, Sadbhawna Pandit, Rajesh Kumar   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Burden, timing and causes of maternal and neonatal deaths and stillbirths in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia: Protocol for a prospective cohort study [PDF]

, 2016
OBJECTIVES: The AMANHI mortality study aims to use harmonized methods, across eleven sites in eight countries in South Asia and sub–Saharan Africa, to estimate the burden, timing and causes of maternal, fetal and neonatal deaths. It will generate data to
Abdul Quaiyum, Mohammad, AMANHI study group, Kalonji, Michel, Ngaima, Seige, Nguwo, Andre, Otomba, John, Tshefu, Antoinette   +6 more
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Validity of verbal autopsy method to determine causes of death among adults in the urban setting of Ethiopia

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, Mariam Damen Haile, Araya Tekebash, Aneneh Aderaw   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

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
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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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Ascertaining cause of mortality among middle-aged and older persons using computer-coded and expert review verbal autopsies in the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study

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, Peifeng Hu, John A. Strauss, Yaohui Zhao, Yafeng Wang, Eileen M. Crimmins   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

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, Daniel D. Reidpath, Natalie C. Evans, Nirmala Devarajan, Kanason Rajagobal, Ruhaida Bachok, Kridaraan Komahan   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

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, Saurabh Sharma, Atul Juneja, Saritha Nair, B. K. Gulati, Kh. Jitenkumar Singh, Lucky Singh, Ved Prakash Yadav, Chalapati Rao, M. Vishnu Vardhana Rao   +9 more
doaj   +1 more source

Care-seeking patterns for fatal malaria in Tanzania. [PDF]

, 2004
BACKGROUND\ud \ud Once malaria occurs, deaths can be prevented by prompt treatment with relatively affordable and efficacious drugs. Yet this goal is elusive in Africa.
de Savigny, Don, Kasale, Harun, Masanja, Honorati, Mayombana, Charles, Mbuya, Conrad, Minhaj, Abdulatif, Mkilindi, Yahya, Mwageni, Eleuther, Reid, Graham   +8 more
core   +4 more sources