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Simplified Symptom Pattern Method for verbal autopsy analysis: multisite validation study using clinical diagnostic gold standards

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, Freeman Michael K, Birnbaum Jeanette K, James Spencer L, Murray Christopher JL, Lopez Alan D   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Application of verbal autopsy in routine civil registration in Lusaka District of Zambia

BMC Health Services Research, 2021
Background Ascertaining the causes for deaths occurring outside health facilities is a significant problem in many developing countries where civil registration systems are not well developed or non-functional.
C. Mapoma, Brian Munkombwe, Chomba Mwango, B. Bwalya, A. Kalindi, N. P. Gona   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Performance of the Tariff Method: validation of a simple additive algorithm for analysis of verbal autopsies

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, Flaxman Abraham D, James Spencer L   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Routine mortality surveillance to identify the cause of death pattern for out-of-hospital adult (aged 12+ years) deaths in Bangladesh: introduction of automated verbal autopsy

BMC Public Health, 2021
Background In Bangladesh, a poorly functioning national system of registering deaths and determining their causes leaves the country without important information on which to inform health programming, particularly for the 85% of deaths that occur in the
Md Toufiq Hassan Shawon, S. Ashrafi, A. Azad, S. Firth, H. Chowdhury, R. Mswia, T. Adair, I. Riley, C. AbouZahr, Alan D. Lopez   +9 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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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Trends and causes of adult mortality from 2007 to 2017 using verbal autopsy method, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

BMJ Open, 2021
Objectives We aim to analyse the trends and causes of mortality among adults in Addis Ababa. Setting This analysis was conducted using verbal autopsy data from the Addis Ababa Mortality Surveillance in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
E. Fenta, B. Sisay, S. Gebreyesus, B. Endris   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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
doaj   +1 more source

Accuracy of verbal autopsy, clinical data and minimally invasive autopsy in the evaluation of malaria-specific mortality: an observational study

BMJ Global Health, 2021
Background Global malaria mortality estimates are hindered by the low reliability of the verbal autopsy (VA) and the clinical records, the most common sources of information used to estimate malaria-specific mortality.
N. Rakislova, Dércio Jordão, Mamudo R Ismail, A. Mayor, P. Cístero, L. Marimón, Melania Ferrando, J. Hurtado, Lucilia Lovane, C. Carrilho, C. Lorenzoni, Fabiola Fernandes, T. Nhampossa, A. Cossa, I. Mandomando, M. Navarro, Isaac Casas, K. Munguambe, Maria Maixenchs, L. Quintó, E. Macete, Mikel J. Martínez, R. Snow, Q. Bassat, C. Menéndez, J. Ordi   +25 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Patterns of age-specific mortality in children in endemic areas of sub-Saharan Africa. [PDF]

, 2007
Understanding of the age- and season- dependence of malaria mortality is an important prerequisite for epidemiologic models of malaria immunity. However, most studies of malaria mortality have aggregated their results into broad age groups and across ...
Abdullah, Salim, Adazu, Kubaje, Binka, Fred N, Diallo, Diadier, Hodgson, Abraham, Ilboudo-Sanogo, Edith, Masanja, Honorati, Nhacolo, Ariel, Owusu-Agyei, Seth, Smith, Thomas, Thompson, Ricardo   +10 more
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Prospects for automated diagnosis of verbal autopsies [PDF]

BMC Medicine, 2014
Verbal autopsy is a method for assessing probable causes of death from lay reporting of signs, symptoms and circumstances by family members or caregivers of a deceased person. Several methods of automated diagnoses of causes of death from standardized verbal autopsy questionnaires have been developed recently (Inter-VA, Tariff, Random Forest and King ...
openaire   +3 more sources