Background Reliable data on the distribution of causes of death (COD) in a population are
fundamental to good public health practice. In the absence of comprehensive medical …

Background Verbal autopsy (VA) is a health surveillance technique used in low and middle-
income countries to establish medical causes of death (CODs) for people who die outside …

Background Verbal autopsy methods are critically important for evaluating the leading
causes of death in populations without adequate vital registration systems. With a myriad of …

Background Verbal autopsy (VA) can be used to describe leading causes of death in
countries like Zambia where vital events registration does not produce usable data. The …

BACKGROUND: Verbal autopsies (VA) are increasingly being used in developing countries
to determine causes of death, but little attention is generally given to the misclassification …

Aims: Verbal autopsy (VA) has become an important tool in the past 20 years for determining
cause of death in communities where there is no routine registration. In many cases, expert …

BACKGROUND: Verbal autopsy (VA) studies are important for measuring cause-specific
mortality in areas where medical certification of cause of death is uncommon. This paper …

Verbal autopsies (VAs) are widely used to describe causes of death in individuals who die
outside hospital or clinic settings. However, they have received surprisingly little validation …

Background Verbal autopsy (VA) is recognized as the only feasible alternative to
comprehensive medical certification of deaths in settings with no or unreliable vital …

Background The most common method for determining cause of death is certification by
physicians based either on available medical records, or where such data are not available …