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An improved method for physician-certified verbal autopsy reduces the rate of discrepancy: experiences in the Nouna Health and Demographic Surveillance Site (NHDSS), Burkina Faso

BACKGROUND: Through application of the verbal autopsy (VA) approach, trained fieldworkers collect information about the probable cause of death (COD) by using a standardized questionnaire to interview family members who were present at the time of death. The physician-certified VA (PCVA), an indepen...

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Autores principales: Yé, Maurice, Diboulo, Eric, Niamba, Louis, Sié, Ali, Coulibaly, Boubacar, Bagagnan, Cheik, Dembélé, Jonas, Ramroth, Heribert
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/PMC3160927/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21816102
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1478-7954-9-34