Diagnostic accuracy of physician review, expert algorithms and data-derived algorithms in adult verbal autopsies.
BACKGROUND: The verbal autopsy (VA) is used to collect information on cause-specific mortality from bereaved relatives. A cause of death may be assigned by physician review of the questionnaires, or by an algorithm. We compared the diagnostic accuracy of physician review, an expert algorithm, and da...
Main Authors: | Quigley, M, Chandramohan, D, Rodrigues, L |
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Format: | Journal article |
Language: | English |
Published: |
1999
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