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

M Yé, E Diboulo, L Niamba, A Sié, B Coulibaly… - Population health …, 2011 - Springer
… Our findings provide evidence that the choice of verbal autopsy coding method has a highly
significant impact on the results of PCVA. It indicates that the improvement of an empirical …

Verbal autopsy: methods in transition

E Fottrell, P Byass - Epidemiologic reviews, 2010 - academic.oup.com
… Workers at the Narangwal project in India labeled this technique “verbal autopsy” (VA); the
method subsequently spread and developed, particularly during the 1970s, when the World …

Validity of verbal autopsy procedures for determining cause of death in Tanzania

PW Setel, DR Whiting, Y Hemed… - Tropical Medicine & …, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
… validate verbal autopsy (VA) procedures for use in sample vital registration. Verbal autopsy
is … Methods Verbal autopsies and medical records (MR) were collected for 3123 deaths in the …

[HTML][HTML] Verbal autopsy: evaluation of methods to certify causes of death in Uganda

A Mpimbaza, S Filler, A Katureebe, L Quick… - PloS one, 2015 - journals.plos.org
verbal autopsy (VA) questionnaire data, the intra-rater reliability of Physician-Certified Verbal
Autopsy … A verbal autopsy validation study was conducted from 2008-2009 in three different …

[HTML][HTML] Validity of verbal autopsy for ascertaining the causes of stillbirth

AK Aggarwal, V Jain, R Kumar - Bulletin of the World Health …, 2011 - SciELO Public Health
… Workers were then given feedback about the discrepancies observed in the interview. The
process was repeated with different case studies until no more discrepancies were noted. …

[HTML][HTML] Limitations to current methods to estimate cause of death: a validation study of a verbal autopsy model

C Menéndez, L Quintó, P Castillo, C Carrilho… - Gates Open …, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
… , continues to rely on estimates based on clinical records and verbal autopsies (VAs). …
A verbal autopsy consists of a structured interview to witnesses of the death subsequently …

[HTML][HTML] Performance of physician-certified verbal autopsies: multisite validation study using clinical diagnostic gold standards

R Lozano, AD Lopez, C Atkinson, M Naghavi… - Population Health …, 2011 - Springer
… Physician review of a verbal autopsy (VA) and completion of a death certificate remains the
… about the performance of physician-certified verbal autopsy (PCVA) using defined clinical …

Characteristics of discrepancies between clinical and autopsy diagnoses in the intensive care unit: a 5-year review

T Silfvast, O Takkunen, E Kolho, LC Andersson… - Intensive care …, 2003 - Springer
… Also, an autopsy may be performed more frequently if the diagnosis is not considered to be
… clinical and autopsy diagnoses in an academic tertiary referral ICU with a high autopsy rate. …

Verbal autopsies and SUDEP

CM Lathers, PL Schraeder - Epilepsy & Behavior, 2009 - Elsevier
verbal autopsy may be the only means of establishing a possible or probable cause of death,
the technique of verbal autopsy … The purpose of verbal autopsy can be multifaceted. When …

[PDF][PDF] Verbal autopsy coding: are multiple coders better than one?

R Joshi, AD Lopez, S MacMahon… - Bulletin of the World …, 2009 - SciELO Public Health
… In the latter case, any discrepancies between the two diagnoses are resolved by … The
verbal autopsy tools used in this project were based on validated verbal autopsy tools used in …