Comparison of physician-certified verbal autopsy with computer-coded verbal autopsy for cause of death assignment in hospitalized patients in low- and middle-income countries: Systematic review

BMC Medicine

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Leitao, Jordana ^a   Desai, Nikita ^a   Aleksandrowicz, Lukasz ^a   Byass, Peter ^b   Miasnikof, Pierre ^a   Tollman, Stephen ^b,c,d   Alam, Dewan ^e   Lu, Ying ^f   Rathi, Suresh K ^a   Singh, Abhishek ^g   Suraweera, Wilson ^a   Ram, Faujdar ^g   Jha, Prabhat ^a  

^a ST MICHAEL'S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c SOUTH AFRICAN MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (South Africa)

^d Studies of the Epidemiology of Epilepsy in Demographic Surveillance Systems   (Ghana)

^e INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR DIARRHOEAL DISEASE RESEARCH   (Bangladesh)

^f NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR POPULATION SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

Causes of death; Computer coded verbal autopsy; InterVA; King and Lu; Physician certified verbal autopsy; Random forest; Simplified symptom pattern; Tariff; Validity; Verbal autopsy

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BIRTH INJURY; CAUSE OF DEATH; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CHRONIC RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; COMPUTER CODED VERBAL AUTOPSY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; ENDOCRINE DISEASE; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MATERNAL MORTALITY; PATIENT CODING; PERINATAL ASPHYXIA; PHYSICIAN; PHYSICIAN CERTIFIED VERBAL AUTOPSY; PNEUMONIA; RANDOM FOREST; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; TUBERCULOSIS; VASCULAR DISEASE;

AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING; AUTOPSY; CAUSE OF DEATH; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; PHYSICIAN'S ROLE; POVERTY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC;

EID: 84893348383     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17417015     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1741-7015-12-22     Document Type: Article

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