… Objectives To validate verbal autopsy (VA) procedures for use in sample vital registration.
Verbal autopsy … Methods Verbal autopsies and medical records (MR) were collected for 3123 …

… Ambiguity regarding the ultimate purpose of VA methods can result in a narrow assumption
that the approach is a direct surrogate for Western-style cause-of-death determination, which …

… deaths that occurred in Malaysia during 2013 was used to ascertain causes of death using
Verbal Autopsy (… national sample of deaths to verify registered causes for hospital deaths, and …

Background A verbal autopsy (VA) is a post-hoc written interview report of the symptoms
preceding a person’s death in cases where no official cause of death (CoD) was determined by …

… of the cause of death assigned by physician from the verbal autopsy was calculated against
the cause of death derived from the hospital records. Of the 262 verbal autopsies, 60% were …

… 18 verbal autopsy questionnaires and 10 cause-of-death lists … -of-death lists and the procedures
to derive causes of death from … Verbal autopsy: a tool for determining cause of death in a …

… to the fact that matched verbal autopsy deaths were all in-hospital deaths in an urban center…
to rural home deaths. Such application and refinement of existing verbal autopsy methods …

… aimed to determine the causes of death using a program called Interpreting Verbal Autopsy
(… on Bayes’ theorem to determine the cause of death by processing successive indicators to …

… But, perhaps there should be provided recommendations for researchers and
practitioners regarding the use of verbal autopsy data in determining the cause of death. …

… PCVA is the traditional approach to verbal autopsy and uses the judgment of a physician to
determine the most likely cause of death based on a verbal autopsy. InterVA is an application …