Usefulness of the Population Health Metrics Research Consortium gold standard verbal autopsy data for general verbal autopsy methods

BMC Medicine

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Byass, Peter ^a,b  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Cause of death; Death registration; InterVA; Low and middle income countries; Verbal autopsy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHILD; FEMALE; GOLD STANDARD; HUMAN; ICD-10; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MATERNAL MORTALITY; MIDDLE AGED; PREMATURE LABOR; SCHOOL CHILD; VERBAL AUTOPSY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AUTOPSY; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIA; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MEXICO; PHILIPPINES; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; TANZANIA; TERTIARY CARE CENTERS;

EID: 84893352110     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17417015     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1741-7015-12-23     Document Type: Article

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