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Measuring causes of death in populations: a new metric that corrects cause-specific mortality fractions for chance

BACKGROUND: Verbal autopsy is gaining increasing acceptance as a method for determining the underlying cause of death when the cause of death given on death certificates is unavailable or unreliable, and there are now a number of alternative approaches for mapping from verbal autopsy interviews to t...

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Autores principales: Flaxman, Abraham D., Serina, Peter T., Hernandez, Bernardo, Murray, Christopher J. L., Riley, Ian, Lopez, Alan D.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4603634/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26464564
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12963-015-0061-1