Validation and validity of verbal autopsy procedures

Population Health Metrics

Volumn 9, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Chandramohan, Daniel ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOPSY; CAUSE OF DEATH; CAUSE SPECIFIC MORTALITY FRACTION; COMPUTERIZED CODING OF VERBAL AUTOPSY; HUMAN; MORTALITY; NOTE; PHYSICIAN CERTIFIED VERBAL AUTOPSY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VERBAL AUTOPSY;

EID: 79960856179     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14787954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1478-7954-9-22     Document Type: Note

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