Journal article
A shortened verbal autopsy instrument for use in routine mortality surveillance systems
Peter Serina, Ian Riley, Andrea Stewart, Abraham D Flaxman, Rafael Lozano, Meghan D Mooney, Richard Luning, Bernardo Hernandez, Robert Black, Ramesh Ahuja, Nurul Alam, Sayed Saidul Alam, Said Mohammed Ali, Charles Atkinson, Abdulla H Baqui, Hafizur R Chowdhury, Lalit Dandona, Rakhi Dandona, Emily Dantzer, Gary L Darmstadt Show all
BMC MEDICINE | BMC | Published : 2015
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Verbal autopsy (VA) is recognized as the only feasible alternative to comprehensive medical certification of deaths in settings with no or unreliable vital registration systems. However, a barrier to its use by national registration systems has been the amount of time and cost needed for data collection. Therefore, a short VA instrument (VAI) is needed. In this paper we describe a shortened version of the VAI developed for the Population Health Metrics Research Consortium (PHMRC) Gold Standard Verbal Autopsy Validation Study using a systematic approach. METHODS: We used data from the PHMRC validation study. Using the Tariff 2.0 method, we first established a rank order of individ..
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Awarded by National Health and Medical Research Council project grant, Improving methods to measure comparable mortality by cause
Funding Acknowledgements
This analysis was made possible by the series of studies produced by the Population Health Metrics Research Consortium. The work was funded by a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation through the Grand Challenges in Global Health Initiative. This work was also supported by a National Health and Medical Research Council project grant, Improving methods to measure comparable mortality by cause (Grant no. 631494). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, interpretation of data, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. The corresponding author had full access to all data analyzed and had final responsibility for the decision to submit this original research paper for publication.