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Verbal autopsy: methods in transition.
Understanding of global health and changing morbidity and mortality is limited by inadequate measurement of population health. With fewer than one-third of deaths worldwide being assigned a cause, this long-standing dearth of information, almost exclusively in the world's poorest countries, hinders understanding of population health and limits opportunities for planning, monitoring, and evaluat...
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BACKGROUND Verbal autopsy analyses are widely used for estimating cause-specific mortality rates (CSMR) in the vast majority of the world without high-quality medical death registration. Verbal autopsies -- survey interviews with the caretakers of imminent decedents -- stand in for medical examinations or physical autopsies, which are infeasible or culturally prohibited. METHODS AND FINDINGS ...
متن کاملWhither verbal autopsy?
Commentary Wherever the field of verbal autopsy (VA) may be heading, the exciting and considerable extent of new work presented in this Population Health Metrics series clearly shows that the topic is not withering. The Global Congress on Verbal Autopsy held in Bali in February 2011 undoubtedly marked a significant milestone: VA has come of age as an area of scientific interest in its own right...
متن کاملMachine Learning Methods for Verbal Autopsy in Developing Countries
Many resource-poor countries lack the capacity to accurately track vital registration data, such as cause of death, which are crucial inputs to health and development decision making. Verbal autopsy provides a means to ascertain cause of death in the poorest countries through the means of a standard questionnaire, but because doctors are scarce and their time is better spent treating the ill, m...
متن کاملUsefulness of the Population Health Metrics Research Consortium gold standard verbal autopsy data for general verbal autopsy methods
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 certification of deaths is not widely practiced. VA involves a lay interview with family or friends after a death, to record essential details of the circumstances. These data can then be processed automatically to arrive at standardiz...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Nature
سال: 2010
ISSN: 0028-0836,1476-4687
DOI: 10.1038/4671015a