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Exploring the role narrative free-text plays in discrepancies between physician coding and the InterVA regarding determination of malaria as cause of death, in a malaria holo-endemic region

BACKGROUND: In countries where tracking mortality and clinical cause of death are not routinely undertaken, gathering verbal autopsies (VA) is the principal method of estimating cause of death. The most common method for determining probable cause of death from the VA interview is Physician-Certifie...

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Autores principales: Rankin, Johanna C, Lorenz, Eva, Neuhann, Florian, Yé, Maurice, Sié, Ali, Becher, Heiko, Ramroth, Heribert
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3359180/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22353802
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1475-2875-11-51