verbal autopsy
Designing verbal autopsy studies
... The results in this section provide detailed informa- tion on how to design verbal autopsy studies to reduce error. Researchers can now pick an acceptable threshold level for the mean absolute error rate ...
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The paradox of verbal autopsy in cause of death assignment: symptom question unreliability but predictive accuracy
... VAs for this study were collected for deaths occurring from 2007 to 2010 in Bohol, Manila, and Andhra Pra- desh. VAs were administered in two separate rounds. The first round was collected between 6 days and 5 months ...
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Cause-of-death ascertainment for deaths that occur outside hospitals in Thailand: application of verbal autopsy methods
... of verbal autopsy methods in developing countries, but more importantly, has demonstrated the very significant poten- tial of the method to reduce ignorance about the leading causes of death in populations ...
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Robust metrics for assessing the performance of different verbal autopsy cause assignment methods in validation studies
... of verbal autopsy methods will also have greater credibility, not only if the appropriate metrics are used, but also if great care is taken in establishing true gold standard cause of death ...
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Validity of verbal autopsy method to determine causes of death among adults in the urban setting of Ethiopia
... The effect of misclassification of causes of death in verbal autopsy was more observed with HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis compared with other causes. In both cases false positives were higher than false ...
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A systematic review and synthesis of the strengths and limitations of measuring malaria mortality through verbal autopsy
... Verbal autopsy consists of an interview conducted with a family member or an individual familiar with the deceased using a structured questionnaire to gather information about the signs and symptoms, and ...
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Pneumonia mortality and healthcare utilization in young children in rural Bangladesh: a prospective verbal autopsy study
... Additionally, verbal autopsy question- naires that were developed by WHO have some generic limitations due to lacking information on parent’s educa- tion, family income, the number of antenatal care (ANC) ...
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Characterizing measles transmission in India: a dynamic modeling study using verbal autopsy data
... We present in this paper a data- and model-driven estima- tion of the historical measles dynamics, CFR, and vaccin- ation impact in India as a whole as well as in two key states (Bihar and UP) for measles mortality. We ...
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An integrated approach to processing WHO-2016 verbal autopsy data: the InterVA-5 model
... 2012 verbal autopsy instrument (WHO-2012), but InterVA-5 also includes significant new concepts as well as updates based on the experience of processing hundreds of thousands of VA cases using ...
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Stillbirths and newborn deaths in slum settlements in Mumbai, India: a prospective verbal autopsy study
... a verbal autopsy tool with both open and closed questions based on versions from partner projects in Nepal, Bangladesh, Malawi and India, and on serial drafts that developed into the current WHO standard ...
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Linguistic and statistically derived features for cause of death prediction from verbal autopsy text
... Abstract. Automatic Text Classification (ATC) is an emerging technology with economic importance given the unprecedented growth of text data. This paper reports on work in progress to develop methods for predicting Cause ...
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Verbal autopsy as a tool for identifying the contributory factors for young infant death in Chennai Corporation
... Our study showed a higher proportion of deaths in males (58.7 %) compared to female infants (41.3 %) and it was not statistically significant. Male deaths were more due to asphyxia (16.3 % vs 6.5% )and sepsis ( 12.5 % vs ...
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Malaria related mortality based on verbal autopsy in an area of low endemicity in a predominantly rural population in Ethiopia
... Results: A verbal autopsy study was successfully conducted in 325 deaths, of which 42 (13%) were attributed to malaria. The majority of malaria deaths (47.6%) were from the rural lowlands compared to those ...
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Verbal autopsy-based cause-specific mortality trends in rural KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, 2000-2009
... Two methods were used to determine cause of death for each case: physician coding and an automated method using the InterVA v3 probabilistic verbal autopsy interpretation model. In the physician-coded ...
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The quality and diagnostic value of open narratives in verbal autopsy: a mixed-methods analysis of partnered interviews from Malawi
... for complete pairs of partner interviews by three inde- pendent physician reviewers and InterVA (as an example CCVA method). One physician was given the closed questions only, one the open narratives and the closed ...
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A STUDY ON VERBAL AUTOPSY OF CAUSE OF DEATHS AMONG INSURED MEMBERS IN RURAL AREAS OF WEST GODAVARI DISTRICT, INDIA
... of verbal autopsy through the involvement of trained health care professionals among 289 death persons information during the period from July 2013 to August ...
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Moving from medical to health systems classifications of deaths: extending verbal autopsy to collect information on the circumstances of mortality
... lives. Verbal autopsy (VA) is a pragmatic approach in this regard used to determine levels and medical causes of death (CODs) for people who die outside health facilities and/or where the formal ...
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Random forests for verbal autopsy analysis: multisite validation study using clinical diagnostic gold standards
... provides a large multisite dataset to assess the perfor- mance of new or existing verbal autopsy methods. The PHMRC study identified deaths that met defined clinical diagnostic criteria for cause of death. ...
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Epidemiologic application of verbal autopsy to investigate the high occurrence of cancer along Huai River Basin, China
... permanent residence administration departments and countryside health departments to avoid underestima- tion. Second, we derived COD from verbal autopsy results using physicians ’ reviews. This approach is ...
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Challenges and acceptance of the use of computer-assisted personal interviews technology for verbal autopsy/social autopsy child mortality survey in urban slums of Karachi, Pakistan.
... Background: For collecting data regarding child mortality, the verbal autopsy/social autopsy (VASA) surveys involves lengthy questionnaires. Use of computer-assisted personal interview (CAPI) ...
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