Browsing Faculty of Arts and Sciences by Keyword "Causes of death"
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Improving performance of the Tariff Method for assigning causes of death to verbal autopsies
(BioMed Central, 2015)Background: Reliable data on the distribution of causes of death (COD) in a population are fundamental to good public health practice. In the absence of comprehensive medical certification of deaths, the only feasible way ... -
A shortened verbal autopsy instrument for use in routine mortality surveillance systems
(BioMed Central, 2015)Background: Verbal autopsy (VA) is recognized as the only feasible alternative to comprehensive medical certification of deaths in settings with no or unreliable vital registration systems. However, a barrier to its use ...