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Using verbal autopsy to measure causes of death: the comparative performance of existing methods

2014; BioMed Central; Volume: 12; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1186/1741-7015-12-5

1741-7015

Christopher J L Murray, Rafael Lozano, Abraham D. Flaxman, Peter Serina, David Phillips, Andrea Stewart, Spencer L James, Alireza Vahdatpour, Charles Atkinson, Michael K Freeman, Summer Lockett Ohno, Robert E. Black, Said M. Ali, Abdullah H Baqui, Lalit Dandona, Emily Dantzer, Gary L. Darmstadt, Vinita Das, Usha Dhingra, Arup Dutta, Wafaie Fawzi, Sara Gómez, Bernardo Hernández, Rohina Joshi, H. Kalter, Aarti Kumar, Vishwajeet Kumar, Marilla Lucero, Saurabh Mehta, Bruce Neal, Devarsetty Praveen, Zul Premji, Dolores Ramírez-Villalobos, Hazel Remolador, Ian Riley, Minerva Romero, Mwanaidi Said, Diozele Sanvictores, Sunil Sazawal, Veronica Tallo, Alan D López,

Data-Driven Disease Surveillance

Monitoring progress with disease and injury reduction in many populations will require widespread use of verbal autopsy (VA). Multiple methods have been developed for assigning cause of death from a VA but their application is restricted by uncertainty about their reliability.