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 …

Objective: To build on the previously reported development of a Bayesian probabilistic
model for interpreting verbal autopsy (VA) data, attempting to improve the model's …

Aims: Verbal autopsy (VA) is an attractive method for ascertaining causes of death in
settings where the proportion of people who die under medical care is low. VA has been …

Background The verbal autopsy appears to be an attractive technique for the assessment of
causes of adult death in settings where the proportion of people who die while under …

OBJECTIVE: Verbal autopsy (VA)-the interviewing of family members or caregivers about
the circumstances of a death after the event-is an established tool in areas where routine …

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 …

Summary background Verbal autopsy (VA) has been widely used to ascertain causes of
child deaths, but little is known about the usefulness of VA for adult deaths. This paper …

Background One key contextual feature in Verbal Autopsy (VA) is the time between death
and survey administration, or recall period. This study quantified the effect of recall period on …

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 …