Factors associated with physician agreement on verbal autopsy of over 11500 injury deaths in India

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Hsiao, Marvin ^a,b   Morris, Shaun K ^a,c   Bassani, Diego G ^a,c,d   Montgomery, Ann L ^a   Thakur, J S ^a,e   Jha, Prabhat ^a,d  

^a ST MICHAEL'S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b ST MICHAEL'S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^c HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^e POSTGRADUATE INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; CLINICAL STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROWNING; FALLING; GOLD STANDARD; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INDIA; INJURY; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; KAPPA STATISTICS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MILLION DEATH STUDY; MORTALITY; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PHYSICIAN; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; RISK FACTOR; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRAFFIC AND TRANSPORT; VERBAL AUTOPSY; AUTOPSY; CLASSIFICATION; CLINICAL PRACTICE; FEMALE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; REGISTER; REPRODUCIBILITY; STANDARD; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; SURVIVAL RATE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AUTOPSY; CAUSE OF DEATH; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIA; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; REGISTRIES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SURVIVAL RATE; WOUNDS AND INJURIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84855827279     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0030336     Document Type: Article

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