Exploring the role narrative free-text plays in discrepancies between physician coding and the InterVA regarding determination of malaria as cause of death, in a malaria holo-endemic region

Malaria Journal

Volumn 11, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Rankin, Johanna C ^a   Lorenz, Eva ^a   Neuhann, Florian ^a   Yé, Maurice ^b   Sié, Ali ^b   Becher, Heiko ^a   Ramroth, Heribert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

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

Author keywords

Bayesian InterVA model; Burkina Faso; Cause of death; Free text; INDEPTH; Malaria; Verbal autopsy

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; ENDEMIC DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MALE; MORTALITY; NEWBORN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PHYSICIAN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; QUESTIONNAIRE; SCHOOL CHILD; BURKINA FASO; CODING; INTERVIEW; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BURKINA FASO; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CLINICAL CODING; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALARIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICIANS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84857135148     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14752875     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1475-2875-11-51     Document Type: Article

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