Improving performance of the Tariff Method for assigning causes of death to verbal autopsies

BMC Medicine

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Serina, Peter ^a   Riley, Ian ^b   Stewart, Andrea ^a   James, Spencer L ^a   Flaxman, Abraham D ^a   Lozano, Rafael ^a,c   Hernandez, Bernardo ^a   Mooney, Meghan D ^a   Luning, Richard ^a   Black, Robert ^d   Ahuja, Ramesh ^e,f   Alam, Nurul ^g   Alam, Sayed Saidul ^g   Ali, Said Mohammed ^h   Atkinson, Charles ^a   Baqui, Abdulla H ^d   Chowdhury, Hafizur R ^t   Dandona, Lalit ^a,i   Dandona, Rakhi ⁱ   Dantzer, Emily ^j   Darmstadt, Gary L ^k   Das, Vinita ^l   Dhingra, Usha ^d,h   Dutta, Arup ^d,h   Fawzi, Wafaie ^m   Freeman, Michael ^a   Gomez, Sara ⁿ   Gouda, Hebe N ^b,o   Joshi, Rohina ^p   Kalter, Henry D ^d   Kumar, Aarti ^e,f   Kumar, Vishwajeet ^e,f   Lucero, Marilla ^q   Maraga, Seri ^o   Mehta, Saurabh ^r   Neal, Bruce ^p,u,v   Ohno, Summer Lockett ^a   Phillips, David ^a   Pierce, Kelsey ^a   Prasad, Rajendra ^l   Praveen, Devarsatee ^p,w   Premji, Zul ^s   Ramirez Villalobos, Dolores ^c   Rarau, Patricia ^o   Remolador, Hazel ^q   Romero, Minerva ^c   Said, Mwanaidi ^s   Sanvictores, Diozele ^q   Sazawal, Sunil ^d,h   Streatfield, Peter K ^g   Tallo, Veronica ^q   Vadhatpour, Alireza ^a   Vano, Miriam ^o   Murray, Christopher J L ^a   Lopez, Alan D ^t   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE SALUD PÚBLICA   (Mexico)

^d JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^e Community Empowerment Lab ^*  (India)

^f Okhla Industrial Area   (India)

^g INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR DIARRHOEAL DISEASE RESEARCH   (Bangladesh)

^h Public Health Laboratory Ivo de Carneri   (Tanzania)

ⁱ PUBLIC HEALTH FOUNDATION OF INDIA   (India)

^j MALARIA CONSORTIUM   (United Kingdom)

^k STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^l KING GEORGE'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (India)

^m HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

ⁿ IPAS   (United States)

^o PAPUA NEW GUINEA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Papua New Guinea)

^p UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^q RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Philippines)

^r Division of Nutritional Sciences ^*  (United States)

^s MUHIMBILI UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH AND ALLIED SCIENCES   (Tanzania)

^t UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^u ROYAL PRINCE ALFRED HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^v IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^w George Institute India   (India)

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Author keywords

Causes of death; Mortality surveillance; Verbal autopsy questionnaire

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AUSTRALIA; AUTOPSY; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHILD; DATA BASE; DIAGNOSIS; FAMILY; FAMILY STUDY; GOLD STANDARD; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MEDICAL RECORD; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NEWBORN; FEMALE; MALE; PROCEDURES;

AUTOPSY; CAUSE OF DEATH; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE;

EID: 84949238405     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17417015     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12916-015-0527-9     Document Type: Article

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