Verbal autopsy as a tool for identifying children dying of sickle cell disease: A validation study conducted in Kilifi district, Kenya

BMC Medicine

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Ndila, Carolyne ^a,b   Bauni, Evasius ^a,b   Nyirongo, Vysaul ^c   Mochamah, George ^a   Makazi, Alex ^a   Kosgei, Patrick ^a   Nyutu, Gideon ^a   Macharia, Alex ^a   Kapesa, Sailoki ^a   Byass, Peter ^b,d   Williams, Thomas N ^a,b,e  

^a KENYA MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Kenya)

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

^c United Nation Statistics Division   (United States)

^d UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^e IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Agreement coefficient; Child mortality; Kenya; Sickle cell disease; Verbal autopsy

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHILD; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CHILDHOOD MORTALITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DYING; FEMALE; GOLD STANDARD; HUMAN; ICD-10; KENYA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREDICTIVE VALUE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SICKLE CELL ANEMIA; VALIDATION STUDY; VERBAL AUTOPSY; AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; EPIDEMIOLOGY; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; MEDICAL RECORD; MORTALITY; NEWBORN; RURAL POPULATION; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; ANEMIA, SICKLE CELL; AUTOPSY; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; KENYA; MALE; MEDICAL RECORDS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; RURAL POPULATION;

EID: 84899982011     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17417015     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1741-7015-12-65     Document Type: Article

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