A verbal autopsy (VA) questionnaire, which had an open-ended description of the
deceased's illness followed by a series of close-ended questions on specific symptoms and …

Background Computer-coded verbal autopsy (CCVA) methods to assign causes of death
(CODs) for medically unattended deaths have been proposed as an alternative to physician …

An autopsy, the medical examination of a deceased person, may confirm clinical findings,
provide more complete information to describe cause of death, or uncover conditions not …

Summary objective To validate the causes of death determined with a single verbal autopsy
instrument covering all age groups in the Agincourt subdistrict of rural South Africa. methods …

Background Cause of death data are a critical input to formulating good public health policy.
In the absence of reliable vital registration data, information collected after death from …

Background Assessing the causes of death across all regions of the world requires a
framework for integrating, and analysing, the fragmentary information that is available on …

Background Over 75% of the annual estimated 9.5 million deaths in India occur in the home,
and the large majority of these do not have a certified cause. India and other developing …

Background Substantial reductions in maternal mortality are called for in Millennium
Development Goal 5 (MDG-5), thus assuming that maternal mortality is measurable. A key …

Abstract Information on cause of death among adults in sub-Saharan Africa is essentially
nonexistent. Published sources provide statistics on both cause-specific and overall rates of …

A standard verbal autopsy method for investigating causes of death in infants and children. |
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