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Robust metrics for assessing the performance of different verbal autopsy cause assignment methods in validation studies

BACKGROUND: Verbal autopsy (VA) is an important method for obtaining cause of death information in settings without vital registration and medical certification of causes of death. An array of methods, including physician review and computer-automated methods, have been proposed and used. Choosing t...

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Autores principales: Murray, Christopher JL, Lozano, Rafael, Flaxman, Abraham D, Vahdatpour, Alireza, Lopez, Alan D
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3160921/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21816106
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1478-7954-9-28