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Performance criteria for verbal autopsy-based systems to estimate national causes of death: development and application to the Indian Million Death Study

BACKGROUND: Verbal autopsy (VA) has been proposed to determine the cause of death (COD) distributions in settings where most deaths occur without medical attention or certification. We develop performance criteria for VA-based COD systems and apply these to the Registrar General of India’s ongoing,...

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Autores principales: Aleksandrowicz, Lukasz, Malhotra, Varun, Dikshit, Rajesh, Gupta, Prakash C, Kumar, Rajesh, Sheth, Jay, Rathi, Suresh Kumar, Suraweera, Wilson, Miasnikof, Pierre, Jotkar, Raju, Sinha, Dhirendra, Awasthi, Shally, Bhatia, Prakash, 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/PMC3912490/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24495287
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1741-7015-12-21