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Performance of four computer-coded verbal autopsy methods for cause of death assignment compared with physician coding on 24,000 deaths in low- and middle-income countries

BACKGROUND: Physician-coded verbal autopsy (PCVA) is the most widely used method to determine causes of death (CODs) in countries where medical certification of death is uncommon. Computer-coded verbal autopsy (CCVA) methods have been proposed as a faster and cheaper alternative to PCVA, though they...

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Autores principales: Desai, Nikita, Aleksandrowicz, Lukasz, Miasnikof, Pierre, Lu, Ying, Leitao, Jordana, Byass, Peter, Tollman, Stephen, Mee, Paul, Alam, Dewan, Rathi, Suresh Kumar, Singh, Abhishek, Kumar, Rajesh, Ram, Faujdar, Jha, Prabhat
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3912488/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24495855
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1741-7015-12-20