Performance of four computer-coded verbal autopsy methods for cause of death assignment compared with physician coding on 24,000 deaths in low-and middle …

N Desai, L Aleksandrowicz, P Miasnikof, Y Lu, J Leitao… - BMC medicine, 2014 - Springer
Background Physician-coded verbal autopsy (PCVA) is the most widely used method to
determine causes of death (CODs) in countries where medical certification of death is …

Comparison of physician-certified verbal autopsy with computer-coded verbal autopsy for cause of death assignment in hospitalized patients in low-and middle …

J Leitao, N Desai, L Aleksandrowicz, P Byass… - BMC medicine, 2014 - Springer
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 …

Performance criteria for verbal autopsy-based systems to estimate national causes of death: development and application to the Indian Million Death Study

L Aleksandrowicz, V Malhotra, R Dikshit, PC Gupta… - BMC medicine, 2014 - Springer
Background Verbal autopsy (VA) has been proposed to determine the cause of death (COD)
distributions in settings where most deaths occur without medical attention or certification …

Robust metrics for assessing the performance of different verbal autopsy cause assignment methods in validation studies

CJL Murray, R Lozano, AD Flaxman… - Population Health …, 2011 - Springer
Background Verbal autopsy (VA) is an important method for obtaining cause of death
information in settings without vital registration and medical certification of causes of death …

Usefulness of the Population Health Metrics Research Consortium gold standard verbal autopsy data for general verbal autopsy methods

P Byass - BMC medicine, 2014 - Springer
Abstract Background Verbal Autopsy (VA) is widely viewed as the only immediate strategy
for registering cause of death in much of Africa and Asia, where routine physician …

Automated versus physician assignment of cause of death for verbal autopsies: randomized trial of 9374 deaths in 117 villages in India

P Jha, D Kumar, R Dikshit, A Budukh, R Begum, P Sati… - BMC medicine, 2019 - Springer
Background Verbal autopsies with physician assignment of cause of death (COD) are
commonly used in settings where medical certification of deaths is uncommon. It remains …

[HTML][HTML] Automated verbal autopsy classification: using one-against-all ensemble method and Naïve Bayes classifier

SS Murtaza, P Kolpak, A Bener, P Jha - Gates open research, 2018 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Verbal autopsy (VA) deals with post-mortem surveys about deaths, mostly in low and middle
income countries, where the majority of deaths occur at home rather than a hospital, for …

[HTML][HTML] Comparing verbal autopsy cause of death findings as determined by physician coding and probabilistic modelling: a public health analysis of 54 000 deaths …

P Byass, K Herbst, E Fottrell, MM Ali… - Journal of global …, 2015 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background Coverage of civil registration and vital statistics varies globally, with most
deaths in Africa and Asia remaining either unregistered or registered without cause of death …

An improved method for physician-certified verbal autopsy reduces the rate of discrepancy: experiences in the Nouna Health and Demographic Surveillance Site …

M Yé, E Diboulo, L Niamba, A Sié, B Coulibaly… - Population health …, 2011 - Springer
Background Through application of the verbal autopsy (VA) approach, trained fieldworkers
collect information about the probable cause of death (COD) by using a standardized …

Agreement between cause of death assignment by computer-coded verbal autopsy methods and physician coding of verbal autopsy interviews in South Africa

P Groenewald, J Thomas, SJ Clark, D Morof… - Global Health …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT Background The South African national cause of death validation (NCODV
2017/18) project collected a national sample of verbal autopsies (VA) with cause of death …