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Designing verbal autopsy studies
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 ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Bulletin of the World Health Organisation
سال: 2006
ISSN: 0042-9686
DOI: 10.2471/blt.05.027003