Summary background Verbal autopsy (VA) is used to ascertain causes of death using
information obtained from bereaved relatives. Causes of death can be ascertained from VA …

BACKGROUND: The verbal autopsy (VA) is used to collect information on cause-specific
mortality from bereaved relatives. A cause of death may be assigned by physician review of …

Estimation of cause of death is more difficult in developing countries because neither health-
facility-based information systems nor vital registration provides adequate data on the cause …

Objectives To validate verbal autopsy (VA) procedures for use in sample vital registration.
Verbal autopsy is an important method for deriving cause‐specific mortality estimates where …

To assess different methods for determining cause of death from verbal autopsy (VA)
questionnaire data, the intra-rater reliability of Physician-Certified Verbal Autopsy (PCVA) …

Over the past 70 years, significant advances have been made in determining the causes of
death in populations not served by official medical certification of cause at the time of death …

Background Verbal autopsy (VA) is an indirect method of ascertaining cause of death from
information about symptoms and signs obtained from bereaved relatives. This method has …

Background Developing countries generally lack complete vital registration systems that can
produce cause of death information for health planning in their populations. As an …

Age, sex and cause of death are registered for only a third of all deaths globally, and the vast
majority of these deaths occur in developed countries (Lopez et al. 2000). In rural Africa,≥ …

Cause-of-death data derived from verbal autopsy (VA) are increasingly used for health
planning, priority setting, monitoring and evaluation in countries with incomplete or no vital …