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Robustness of the Tariff method for diagnosing verbal autopsies: impact of additional site data on the relationship between symptom and cause

Abstract Background Verbal autopsy (VA) is increasingly being considered as a cost-effective method to improve cause of death information in countries with low quality vital registration. VA algorithms that use empirical data have an advantage over expert derived algorithms in that they use response...

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Main Authors: Hafizur Rahman Chowdhury, Abraham D. Flaxman, Jonathan C. Joseph, Riley H. Hazard, Nurul Alam, Ian Douglas Riley, Alan D. Lopez
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: BMC 2019-12-01
Series:BMC Medical Research Methodology
Subjects:
Verbal autopsy
Tariff
Symptom
Cause of death
Gold standard
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s12874-019-0877-7
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