Performance of physician-certified verbal autopsies: Multisite validation study using clinical diagnostic gold standards

Population Health Metrics

Volumn 9, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Lozano, Rafael ^a   Lopez, Alan D ^b   Atkinson, Charles ^a   Naghavi, Mohsen ^a   Flaxman, Abraham D ^a   Murray, Christopher J L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cause of death certification; Physician review; Validation; Verbal autopsy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; CAUSE OF DEATH; CERTIFICATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; HEALTH WORKER; LITERATURE REVIEW; NEONATE; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; PUBLIC HEALTH; STANDARD (REGULATION);

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CAUSE OF DEATH; CERTIFICATION; HUMAN; JOB EXPERIENCE; JOB PERFORMANCE; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STANDARD; VALIDATION STUDY; VERBAL AUTOPSY;

EID: 84921001477     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14787954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1478-7954-9-32     Document Type: Article

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