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    • Improving performance of the Tariff Method for assigning causes of death to verbal autopsies 

      Serina, Peter; Riley, Ian; Stewart, Andrea; James, Spencer L.; Flaxman, Abraham D.; Lozano, Rafael; Hernandez, Bernardo; Mooney, Meghan D.; Luning, Richard; Black, Robert; Ahuja, Ramesh; Alam, Nurul; Alam, Sayed Saidul; Ali, Said Mohammed; Atkinson, Charles; Baqui, Abdulla H.; Chowdhury, Hafizur R.; Dandona, Lalit; Dandona, Rakhi; Dantzer, Emily; Darmstadt, Gary L.; Das, Vinita; Dhingra, Usha; Dutta, Arup; Fawzi, Wafaie; Freeman, Michael; Gomez, Sara; Gouda, Hebe N.; Joshi, Rohina; Kalter, Henry D.; Kumar, Aarti; Kumar, Vishwajeet; Lucero, Marilla; Maraga, Seri; Mehta, Saurabh; Neal, Bruce; Ohno, Summer Lockett; Phillips, David; Pierce, Kelsey; Prasad, Rajendra; Praveen, Devarsatee; Premji, Zul; Ramirez-Villalobos, Dolores; Rarau, Patricia; Remolador, Hazel; Romero, Minerva; Said, Mwanaidi; Sanvictores, Diozele; Sazawal, Sunil; Streatfield, Peter K.; Tallo, Veronica; Vadhatpour, Alireza; Vano, Miriam; Murray, Christopher J. L.; Lopez, Alan D. (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 

      Serina, Peter; Riley, Ian; Stewart, Andrea; Flaxman, Abraham D.; Lozano, Rafael; Mooney, Meghan D; Luning, Richard; Hernandez, Bernardo; Black, Robert; Ahuja, Ramesh; Alam, Nurul; Alam, Sayed Saidul; Ali, Said Mohammed; Atkinson, Charles; Baqui, Abdulla H.; Chowdhury, Hafizur R.; Dandona, Lalit; Dandona, Rakhi; Dantzer, Emily; Darmstadt, Gary L; Das, Vinita; Dhingra, Usha; Dutta, Arup; Fawzi, Wafaie; Freeman, Michael; Gamage, Saman; Gomez, Sara; Hensman, Dilip; James, Spencer L.; Joshi, Rohina; Kalter, Henry D.; Kumar, Aarti; Kumar, Vishwajeet; Lucero, Marilla; Mehta, Saurabh; Neal, Bruce; Ohno, Summer Lockett; Phillips, David; Pierce, Kelsey; Prasad, Rajendra; Praveen, Devarsetty; Premji, Zul; Ramirez-Villalobos, Dolores; Rampatige, Rasika; Remolador, Hazel; Romero, Minerva; Said, Mwanaidi; Sanvictores, Diozele; Sazawal, Sunil; Streatfield, Peter K.; Tallo, Veronica; Vadhatpour, Alireza; Wijesekara, Nandalal; Murray, Christopher J. L.; Lopez, Alan D. (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 ...