Ian Riley

Validation of physician certified verbal autopsy using conventional autopsy: a large study of adult non-external causes of death in a metropolitan area in Brazil.

Carmen Diva Saldiva de André, Ana Luiza Bierrenbach, Lucia Pereira Barroso, Paulo Afonso de André, Lisie Tocci Justo, Luiz Alberto Amador Pereira, Mauro T Taniguchi, Cátia Martinez Minto, Pedro Losco Takecian, Leonardo Tadashi Kamaura, João Eduardo Ferreira, Riley H Hazard, Deirdre Mclaughlin, Ian Riley, Alan D Lopez, Ana Maria de Oliveira Ramos, Maria de Fatima Marinho de Souza, Elisabeth Barboza França, Paulo Hilário Nascimento Saldiva, Luiz Fernando Ferraz da Silva

Journal article  |  2022  |  BMC Public Health

BACKGROUND: Reliable mortality data are essential for the development of public health policies. In Brazil, although there is a we..

Improving methods to measure comparable mortality by cause (IMMCMC): gold standard verbal autopsy dataset (vol 14, 422, 2021)

Riley H Hazard, Hafzur Rahman Chowdhury, Abraham D Flaxman, Jonathan C Joseph, Nurul Alam, Ian Douglas Riley, Peter Kim Streatfeld, Hebe Gouda, Seri Maraga, Patricia Rarau, Diozele Sanvictores, Veronica Tallo, Marilla Lucero, Alan D Lopez

Journal article  |  2022  |  BMC RESEARCH NOTES

Following the publication of the original article [1], the authors requested to amend the article title from “Improving methods to..

How advanced is the epidemiological transition in Papua New Guinea? New evidence from verbal autopsy

John D Hart, Viola Kwa, Paison Dakulala, Paulus Ripa, Dale Frank, Victor Golpak, Timothy Adair, Deirdre Mclaughlin, Ian D Riley, Alan D Lopez

Journal article  |  2022  |  INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EPIDEMIOLOGY

BACKGROUND: Reliable cause of death (COD) data are not available for the majority of deaths in Papua New Guinea (PNG), despite the..

Validation of SmartVA using conventional autopsy: A study of adult deaths in Brazil

JD Hart, PA de André, CDS de André, T Adair, LP Barroso, S Valongueiro, AL Bierrenbach, PI de Carvalho, MBDC Antunes, CM de Oliveira, LAA Pereira, CM Minto, TMDS Bezerra, SP Costa, BA de Azevedo, JRA de Lima, DSDM Mota, AMDO Ramos, MDFM de Souza, LFF da Silva, et al.

Journal article  |  2022  |  The Lancet Regional Health. Americas

Background: Accurate cause of death data are essential to guide health policy. However, mortality surveillance is limited in many ..

Improving methods to measure comparable mortality cause (IMMCMC) gold standard verbal autopsy dataset

Riley H Hazard, Hafizur Rahman Chowdhury, Abraham D Flaxman, Jonathan C Joseph, Nurul Alam, Ian Douglas Riley, Peter Kim Streatfield, Hebe Gouda, Seri Maraga, Patricia Rarau, Diozele Sanvictores, Veronica Tallo, Marilla Lucero, Alan D Lopez

Journal article  |  2021  |  BMC RESEARCH NOTES

OBJECTIVES: Gold standard cause of death data is critically important to improve verbal autopsy (VA) methods in diagnosing cause o..

Integrating community-based verbal autopsy into civil registration and vital statistics: lessons learnt from five countries

Sonja Margot Firth, John D Hart, Matthew Reeve, Hang Li, Lene Mikkelsen, Deborah Carmina Sarmiento, Khin Sandar Bo, Viola Kwa, Jin-Lei Qi, Peng Yin, Agnes Segarra, Ian Riley, Rohina Joshi

Journal article  |  2021  |  BMJ GLOBAL HEALTH

This paper describes the lessons from scaling up a verbal autopsy (VA) intervention to improve data about causes of death accordin..

Diversity of epidemiological transition in the Pacific: Findings from the application of verbal autopsy in Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands

John D Hart, Pkb Mahesh, Viola Kwa, Matthew Reeve, Hafizur Rahman Chowdhury, Gregory Jilini, Rooney Jagilly, Baakai Kamoriki, Rodley Ruskin, Paison Dakulala, Paulus Ripa, Dale Frank, Theresa Lei, Tim Adair, Deirdre McLaughlin, Ian D Riley, Alan D Lopez

Journal article  |  2021  |  LANCET REGIONAL HEALTH-WESTERN PACIFIC

BACKGROUND: Cause of death data are essential for rational health planning yet are not routinely available in Papua New Guinea (PN..

Improving cause of death certification in the Philippines: implementation of an electronic verbal autopsy decision support tool (SmartVA auto-analyse) to aid physician diagnoses of out-of-facility deaths

Rohina Joshi, RH Hazard, Pasyodun Koralage Buddhika Mahesh, L Mikkelsen, F Avelino, Carmina Sarmiento, A Segarra, T Timbang, F Sinson, Patrick Diango, I Riley, H Chowdhury, Irma L Asuncion, G Khanom, Alan D Lopez

Journal article  |  2021  |  BMC PUBLIC HEALTH

BACKGROUND: The majority of deaths in the Philippines occur out-of-facility and require a medical certificate of cause of death by..

Routine mortality surveillance to identify the cause of death pattern for out-of-hospital adult (aged 12 years) deaths in Bangladesh: introduction of automated verbal autopsy

Md Toufiq Hassan Shawon, Shah Ali Akbar Ashrafi, Abul Kalam Azad, Sonja M Firth, Hafizur Chowdhury, Robert G Mswia, Tim Adair, Ian Riley, Carla Abouzahr, Alan D Lopez

Journal article  |  2021  |  BMC PUBLIC HEALTH

BACKGROUND: In Bangladesh, a poorly functioning national system of registering deaths and determining their causes leaves the coun..

Born to fail: flaws in replication design produce intended results

Abraham D Flaxman, Riley Hazard, Ian Riley, Alan D Lopez, Christopher JL Murray

Journal article  |  2020  |  BMC MEDICINE

We recently published in BMC Medicine an evaluation of the comparative diagnostic performance of InSilicoVA, a software to map the..