Assessing a new approach to verbal autopsy interpretation in a rural Ethiopian community: the InterVA model

Assessing a new approach to verbal autopsy interpretation in a rural Ethiopian community: the InterVA model

OBJECTIVE: Verbal autopsy (VA)- the interviewing of family members or caregivers about the circumstances of a death after the event- is an established tool in areas where routine death registration is non-existent or inadequate. We assessed the performance of a probabilistic model (InterVA) for inte...

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Main Authors: Fantahun Mesganaw, Fottrell Edward, Berhane Yemane, Wall Stig, Högberg Ulf, Byass Peter
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: The World Health Organization 2006-01-01
Series:Bulletin of the World Health Organization
Subjects:
Autopsy
Interviews
Questionnaires
Cause of death
Probability
Mortality/trends
Ethiopia
Online Access:http://www.scielosp.org/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0042-96862006000300015

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