Validity of verbal autopsy procedures for determining cause of death in Tanzania

Summary Objectives To validate verbal autopsy (VA) procedures for use in sample vital registration. Verbal autopsy is an important method for deriving cause‐specific mortality estimates where disease burdens are greatest and routine cause‐specific mortality data do not exist. Methods Verbal autops...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Tropical medicine & international health 2006-05, Vol.11 (5), p.681-696
Hauptverfasser:	Setel, Philip W., Whiting, David R., Hemed, Yusuf, Chandramohan, Daniel, Wolfson, Lara J., Alberti, K. G. M. M., Lopez, Alan D.
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Adolescent Adult autopsia/métodos autopsie/méthodes Autopsies Autopsy - methods Biological and medical sciences causa de muerte cause de décès Cause of Death Child child mortality Child, Preschool Deaths epidemiological measurements epidemiological methods estadísticas vitales General aspects HIV Infections - mortality Human immunodeficiency virus Humans Infant Infant Mortality Infant, Newborn Infant, Newborn, Diseases - mortality Medical Records Medical sciences mediciones epidemiológicas mesures épidémiologiques mortalidad infantil Mortality mortalité infantile Mycobacterium méthodes épidémiologiques métodos epidemiológicos Sentinel Surveillance statistiques vitales Tanzania Validation studies vital statistics
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Zusammenfassung:	Summary Objectives To validate verbal autopsy (VA) procedures for use in sample vital registration. Verbal autopsy is an important method for deriving cause‐specific mortality estimates where disease burdens are greatest and routine cause‐specific mortality data do not exist. Methods Verbal autopsies and medical records (MR) were collected for 3123 deaths in the perinatal/neonatal period, post‐neonatal
ISSN:	1360-2276 1365-3156
DOI:	10.1111/j.1365-3156.2006.01603.x