Evaluating the InterVA model for determining AIDS mortality from verbal autopsies in the adult population of Addis Ababa.
OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the performance of a verbal autopsy (VA) expert algorithm (the InterVA model) for diagnosing AIDS mortality against a reference standard from hospital records that include HIV serostatus information in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. METHODS: Verbal autopsies were conducted for 193 ind...
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Format: | Journal article |
Language: | English |
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2010
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