Validation of Verbal Autopsy Tool for Ascertaining the Causes of Stillbirth

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 2013, Pages

  Nausheen, Sidrah ^a   Soofi, Sajid B ^a   Sadiq, Kamran ^a   Habib, Atif ^a   Turab, Ali ^a   Memon, Zahid ^b   Khan, M Imran ^d   Suhag, Zamir ^a   Bhatti, Zaid ^a   Ahmed, Imran ^a   Bahl, Rajiv ^c   Bhutta, Shireen ^e   Bhutta, Zulfiqar A ^a,f  

^a AGA KHAN UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

^b Research and Advocacy Fund   (Pakistan)

^c WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^d International Vaccine Institute   (South Korea)

^e JINNAH POSTGRADUATE MEDICAL CENTRE   (Pakistan)

^f HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASPHYXIA; CAUSE OF DEATH; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA COLLECTION METHOD; FEMALE; FETUS DEATH; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; LABOR COMPLICATION; MATERNAL HYPERTENSION; NEWBORN; NEWBORN DEATH; PAKISTAN; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STILLBIRTH; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; VERBAL AUTOPSY;

ADULT; CAUSE OF DEATH; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; PREGNANCY; REFERENCE STANDARDS; STILLBIRTH;

EID: 84885152945     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0076933     Document Type: Article

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