Mortality surveillance methods to identify and characterize deaths in child health and mortality prevention surveillance network sites

NT Salzberg, K Sivalogan, Q Bassat… - Clinical infectious …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Despite reductions over the past 2 decades, childhood mortality remains high in low-and
middle-income countries in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. In these settings, children …

Validity of a minimally invasive autopsy for cause of death determination in adults in Mozambique: an observational study

P Castillo, MJ Martínez, E Ussene, D Jordao… - PLoS …, 2016 - journals.plos.org
Background There is an urgent need to identify tools able to provide reliable information on
the cause of death in low-income regions, since current methods (verbal autopsy, clinical …

Pathological methods applied to the investigation of causes of death in developing countries: minimally invasive autopsy approach

P Castillo, E Ussene, MR Ismail, D Jordao, L Lovane… - PloS one, 2015 - journals.plos.org
Background and Aims Complete diagnostic autopsies (CDA) remain the gold standard in the
determination of cause of death (CoD). However, performing CDAs in developing countries …

Integrating community-based verbal autopsy into civil registration and vital statistics (CRVS): system-level considerations

D De Savigny, I Riley, D Chandramohan… - Global health …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Background: Reliable and representative cause of death (COD) statistics are essential to
inform public health policy, respond to emerging health needs, and document progress …

Naive Bayes classifiers for verbal autopsies: comparison to physician-based classification for 21,000 child and adult deaths

P Miasnikof, V Giannakeas, M Gomes… - BMC medicine, 2015 - Springer
Background Verbal autopsies (VA) are increasingly used in low-and middle-income
countries where most causes of death (COD) occur at home without medical attention, and …

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 …

In vivo efficacy of artemether-lumefantrine and artesunate-amodiaquine for the treatment of uncomplicated falciparum malaria in children: a multisite, open-label, two …

A Nhama, Q Bassat, S Enosse, A Nhacolo, R Mutemba… - Malaria journal, 2014 - Springer
Background Mozambique adopted artemisinin-based combination therapy (ACT) for the
treatment of uncomplicated Plasmodium falciparum malaria in the year 2006, and since …

[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 …

Mixed-methods analysis of select issues reported in the 2016 world health organization verbal autopsy questionnaire

E Nichols, K Pettrone, B Vickers, H Gebrehiwet… - Plos one, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Background Use of a standardized verbal autopsy (VA) questionnaire, such as the World
Health Organization (WHO) instrument, can improve the consistency and reliability of the …

Let's talk about death: data collection for verbal autopsies in a demographic and health surveillance site in Malaysia

PA Allotey, DD Reidpath, NC Evans… - Global health …, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
Background Verbal autopsies have gained considerable ground as an acceptable
alternative to medically determined cause of death. Unlike with clinical or more …