Community health workers trained to conduct verbal autopsies provide better mortality measures than existing surveillance: Results from a cross-sectional study in rural western Uganda

BACKGROUND: In much of sub-Saharan Africa, health facilities serve as the primary source of routine vital statistics. These passive surveillance systems, however, are plagued by infrequent and unreliable reporting and do not capture events that occur outside of the formal health sector. Verbal autop...

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Autores principales: Nabukalu, Doreen, Ntaro, Moses, Seviiri, Mathias, Reyes, Raquel, Wiens, Matthew, Sundararajan, Radhika, Mulogo, Edgar, Boyce, Ross M.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2019
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6373919/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30759139
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0211482

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6373919/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30759139
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0211482

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