Assessing the quality of evidence for verbal autopsy diagnosis of stroke in Vietnam

Journal of Neurosciences in Rural Practice

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 267-275

  Gupta, Sachin ^a,b   Khieu, Thi Quynh Trang ^a,c   Rao, Chalapati ^a   Anh, Ngo ^d   Hoa, Nguyen Phuong ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b Maternal and Child Health Integrated Program/USAID Grantee   (India)

^c MINISTRY OF HEALTH   (Viet Nam)

^d Health Strategy and Policy Institute   (Viet Nam)

^e Hanoi Medical University   (India)

Author keywords

Cause of death; Stroke; Validation; Verbal autopsy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CAUSE OF DEATH; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CHI SQUARE TEST; CONTENT ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL HISTORY; MORTALITY; PARALYSIS; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RECALL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SYMPTOM; UNCONSCIOUSNESS; VERBAL AUTOPSY; VERBAL COMMUNICATION; VIET NAM;

EID: 84870223012     PISSN: 09763147     EISSN: 09763155     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/0976-3147.102603     Document Type: Article

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