The effect of misclassification error on reported cause-specific mortality fractions from verbal autopsy

International Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 1090-1096

  Anker, Martha ^a  

^a WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Cause of death; Misclassification error; Sensitivity; Specificity; Verbal autopsy

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CAUSE OF DEATH; CERTIFICATION; CLASSIFICATION; ERROR; HOME; MATHEMATICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AUTOPSY; CAUSE OF DEATH; CLASSIFICATION; DATA COLLECTION; HUMANS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 0030661922     PISSN: 03005771     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ije/26.5.1090     Document Type: Article

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