A review of data-derived methods for assigning causes of death from verbal autopsy data

International Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 1080-1089

  Reeves, Barnaby C ^a   Quigley, Maria ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cause of death; Classification; Data derived; Expert algorithm; Validation; Verbal autopsy

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; AUTOPSY; CAUSE OF DEATH; CLASSIFICATION; HUMAN; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REVIEW; TIME;

ALGORITHMS; AUTOPSY; CAUSE OF DEATH; CLASSIFICATION; DATA COLLECTION; DECISION TREES; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 0030669233     PISSN: 03005771     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ije/26.5.1080     Document Type: Review

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