The effect of different sensitivity, specificity and cause-specific mortality fractions on the estimation of differences in cause-specific mortality rates in children from studies using verbal autopsies

International Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 1097-1106

  Maude, Gillian H ^a   Ross, David A ^a  

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

Author keywords

Misclassification; Sensitivity; Specificity; Verbal autopsy

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CALCULATION; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHILDHOOD MORTALITY; CLASSIFICATION; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; ERROR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAMPLE;

AUTOPSY; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CAUSE OF DEATH; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CLASSIFICATION; DATA COLLECTION; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SURVIVAL RATE; TERMINOLOGY;

EID: 0030723378     PISSN: 03005771     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ije/26.5.1097     Document Type: Article

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