Direct estimation of cause-specific mortality fractions from verbal autopsies: Multisite validation study using clinical diagnostic gold standards

Population Health Metrics

Volumn 9, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Flaxman, Abraham D ^a   Vahdatpour, Alireza ^a   James, Spencer L ^a   Birnbaum, Jeanette K ^a   Murray, Christopher J L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Cause of death certification; Direct estimation; Validation; Verbal autopsy

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; AGE CLASS; CAUSE OF DEATH; CERTIFICATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DATA SET; ESTIMATION METHOD; HEALTH WORKER; NEONATE; PREDICTION; PUBLIC HEALTH; SOFTWARE; STANDARD (REFERENCE);

ACCURACY; AGE; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BIOSTATISTICS; CAUSE OF DEATH; CAUSE SPECIFIC MORTALITY FRACTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; GOLD STANDARD; HUMAN; MORTALITY; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VALIDATION STUDY; VERBAL AUTOPSY;

EID: 80052365802     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14787954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1478-7954-9-35     Document Type: Article

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