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Direct estimation of cause-specific mortality fractions from verbal autopsies: multisite validation study using clinical diagnostic gold standards

BACKGROUND: Verbal autopsy (VA) is used to estimate the causes of death in areas with incomplete vital registration systems. The King and Lu method (KL) for direct estimation of cause-specific mortality fractions (CSMFs) from VA studies is an analysis technique that estimates CSMFs in a population w...

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Autores principales: Flaxman, Abraham D, Vahdatpour, Alireza, James, Spencer L, Birnbaum, Jeanette K, Murray, Christopher JL
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/PMC3160928/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21816098
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1478-7954-9-35