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Revealing the burden of maternal mortality: a probabilistic model for determining pregnancy-related causes of death from verbal autopsies

BACKGROUND: Substantial reductions in maternal mortality are called for in Millennium Development Goal 5 (MDG-5), thus assuming that maternal mortality is measurable. A key difficulty is attributing causes of death for the many women who die unaided in developing countries. Verbal autopsy (VA) can e...

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Autores principales: Fottrell, Edward, Byass, Peter, Ouedraogo, Thomas W, Tamini, Cecile, Gbangou, Adjima, Sombié, Issiaka, Högberg, Ulf, Witten, Karen H, Bhattacharya, Sohinee, Desta, Teklay, Deganus, Sylvia, Tornui, Janet, Fitzmaurice, Ann E, Meda, Nicolas, Graham, Wendy J
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2007
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1802065/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17288607
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1478-7954-5-1