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Comparing tariff and medical assistant assigned causes of death from verbal autopsy interviews in Matlab, Bangladesh: implications for a health and demographic surveillance system
BACKGROUND: Deaths in developing countries often occur outside health facilities, making it extremely difficult to gather reliable cause of death (COD) information. Automated COD assignment using a verbal autopsy instrument (VAI) has been proposed as a reliable and cost-effective alternative to trad...
Autores principales: | Hazard, Riley H., Alam, Nurul, Chowdhury, Hafizur Rahman, Adair, Tim, Alam, Saidul, Streatfield, Peter Kim, Riley, Ian Douglas, Lopez, Alan D. |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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BioMed Central
2018
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6020332/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29945624 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12963-018-0169-1 |
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