Record-linkage comparison of verbal autopsy and routine civil registration death certification in rural north-east South Africa: 2006-09

International Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 43, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1945-1958

  Joubert, Jané ^a,b   Bradshaw, Debbie ^a   Kabudula, Chodziwadziwa ^c   Rao, Chalapati ^b   Kahn, Kathleen ^c,d,e   Mee, Paul ^c,d   Tollman, Stephen ^c,d,e   Lopez, Alan D ^f   Vos, Theo ^g  

^a SOUTH AFRICAN MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^d UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

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

^f UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^g UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Agincourt Health and Demographic Surveillance System; Causes of death; Data linkage; Data quality; Mortality; Rural South Africa; Statistics South Africa; Verbal autopsy; Vital statistics

Indexed keywords

CAUSE OF DEATH; CERTIFICATION; DATA ASSIMILATION; DECISION MAKING; HEALTH POLICY; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CAUSE OF DEATH; CAUSE SPECIFIC MORTALITY FRACTION; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CHILD; CIVIL REGISTRATION; DEATH CERTIFICATE; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIARRHEA; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEART DISEASE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HYPERTENSION; INFANT; INJURY; LOWER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENINGITIS; MIDDLE AGED; MISCLASSIFICATION PATTERN; MORTALITY; NEOPLASM; PARASITOSIS; PNEUMONIA; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGISTRATION; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; RURAL AREA; SCHOOL CHILD; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SEPTICEMIA; SOUTH AFRICA; STILLBIRTH; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; TUBERCULOSIS; VERY ELDERLY; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; YOUNG ADULT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; REGISTER; RURAL POPULATION; STANDARDS; VITAL STATISTICS;

SOUTH AFRICA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DATA COLLECTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REGISTRIES; RESEARCH DESIGN; RURAL POPULATION; SOUTH AFRICA; VITAL STATISTICS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84922353140     PISSN: 03005771     EISSN: 14643685     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ije/dyu156     Document Type: Article

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