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 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 …

Random forests for verbal autopsy analysis: multisite validation study using clinical diagnostic gold standards

AD Flaxman, A Vahdatpour, S Green, SL James… - Population health …, 2011 - Springer
Background Computer-coded verbal autopsy (CCVA) is a promising alternative to the
standard approach of physician-certified verbal autopsy (PCVA), because of its high speed …

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 …

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 …

Using verbal autopsy to measure causes of death: the comparative performance of existing methods

CJL Murray, R Lozano, AD Flaxman, P Serina… - BMC medicine, 2014 - Springer
Background Monitoring progress with disease and injury reduction in many populations will
require widespread use of verbal autopsy (VA). Multiple methods have been developed for …

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 …

A shortened verbal autopsy instrument for use in routine mortality surveillance systems

P Serina, I Riley, A Stewart, AD Flaxman, R Lozano… - BMC medicine, 2015 - Springer
Background Verbal autopsy (VA) is recognized as the only feasible alternative to
comprehensive medical certification of deaths in settings with no or unreliable vital …

Validation studies of verbal autopsy methods: a systematic review

BPK Mahesh, JD Hart, A Acharya, HR Chowdhury… - BMC public health, 2022 - Springer
Background Verbal autopsy (VA) has emerged as an increasingly popular technique to
assign cause of death in parts of the world where the majority of deaths occur without proper …