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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
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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

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

Monitoring progress with national and subnational health goals by integrating verbal autopsy and medically certified cause of death data

BMJ Global Health, 2021
Introduction The measurement of progress towards many Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) and other health goals requires accurate and timely all-cause and cause of death (COD) data.
T. Adair, S. Firth, Tint Pa Pa Phyo, Khin Sandar Bo, Alan D. Lopez   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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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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
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Refining circumstances of mortality categories (COMCAT): a verbal autopsy model connecting circumstances of deaths with outcomes for public health decision-making

Global Health Action, 2021
Background Recognising that the causes of over half the world’s deaths pass unrecorded, the World Health Organization (WHO) leads development of Verbal Autopsy (VA): a method to understand causes of death in otherwise unregistered populations.
L. D’Ambruoso, J. Price, Eilidh Cowan, G. Goosen, E. Fottrell, K. Herbst, M. van der Merwe, jerry sigudla, J. Davies, K. Kahn   +9 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Integrating community-based verbal autopsy into civil registration and vital statistics: lessons learnt from five countries

BMJ Global Health, 2021
This paper describes the lessons from scaling up a verbal autopsy (VA) intervention to improve data about causes of death according to a nine-domain framework: governance, design, operations, human resources, financing, infrastructure, logistics ...
S. Firth, John D. Hart, M. Reeve, Hang Li, L. Mikkelsen, Deborah Carmina Sarmiento, Khin Sandar Bo, Viola Kwa, J. Qi, P. Yin, A. Segarra, I. Riley, R. Joshi   +12 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Comparing verbal autopsy cause of death findings as determined by physician coding and probabilistic modelling: a public health analysis of 54 000 deaths in Africa and Asia

Journal of Global Health, 2015
Background: Coverage of civil registration and vital statistics varies globally, with most deaths in Africa and Asia remaining either unregistered or registered without cause of death.
Peter Byass , Kobus Herbst, Edward Fottrell , Mohamed M. Ali, Frank Odhiambo, Nyaguara Amek, Mary J. Hamel, Kayla F. Laserson, Kathleen Kahn, Chodziwadziwa Kabudula, Chodziwadziwa Kabudula, Paul Mee, Jon Bird, Robert Jakob , Osman Sankoh , Stephen M. Tollman   +15 more
doaj   +1 more source