Childhood deaths in Africa: uses and limitations of verbal autopsies.
The verbal autopsy (VA) is an epidemiological tool that is widely used to ascribe causes of death by interviewing bereaved relatives of children who were not under medical supervision at the time of death. This technique was assessed by comparison with a prospective survey of 303 childhood deaths at...
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| Format: | Journal article |
| Language: | English |
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1992
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