An improved method for physician-certified verbal autopsy reduces the rate of discrepancy: Experiences in the Nouna Health and Demographic Surveillance Site (NHDSS), Burkina Faso

Population Health Metrics

Volumn 9, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Yé, Maurice ^a   Diboulo, Eric ^a   Niamba, Louis ^a   Sié, Ali ^a   Coulibaly, Boubacar ^a   Bagagnan, Cheik ^a   Dembélé, Jonas ^a   Ramroth, Heribert ^b  

^a CENTRE DE RECHERCHE EN SANTÉ DE NOUNA   (Burkina Faso)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Burkina Faso; Cause of death; Concordance; Discrepancy; Nouna; Verbal autopsy

Indexed keywords

ADOPTION CONSTRAINT; CAUSE OF DEATH; CERTIFICATION; COMPUTER; DEMOGRAPHIC SURVEY; FIELDWORK; HEALTH EDUCATION; QUESTIONNAIRE SURVEY; SAMPLING; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BURKINA FASO; CAUSE OF DEATH; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MORTALITY; MULTICENTER STUDY; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; VERBAL AUTOPSY; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

BURKINA FASO; NOUNA;

GADIDAE;

EID: 79961105335     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14787954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1478-7954-9-34     Document Type: Article

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