Improving performance of the Tariff Method for assigning causes of death to verbal autopsies

BACKGROUND: Reliable data on the distribution of causes of death (COD) in a population are fundamental to good public health practice. In the absence of comprehensive medical certification of deaths, the only feasible way to collect essential mortality data is verbal autopsy (VA). The Tariff Method...

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Published in:BMC Med
Main Authors: Serina, Peter, Riley, Ian, Stewart, Andrea, James, Spencer L., Flaxman, Abraham D., Lozano, Rafael, Hernandez, Bernardo, Mooney, Meghan D., Luning, Richard, Black, Robert, Ahuja, Ramesh, Alam, Nurul, Alam, Sayed Saidul, Ali, Said Mohammed, Atkinson, Charles, Baqui, Abdulla H., Chowdhury, Hafizur R., Dandona, Lalit, Dandona, Rakhi, Dantzer, Emily, Darmstadt, Gary L., Das, Vinita, Dhingra, Usha, Dutta, Arup, Fawzi, Wafaie, Freeman, Michael, Gomez, Sara, Gouda, Hebe N., Joshi, Rohina, Kalter, Henry D., Kumar, Aarti, Kumar, Vishwajeet, Lucero, Marilla, Maraga, Seri, Mehta, Saurabh, Neal, Bruce, Ohno, Summer Lockett, Phillips, David, Pierce, Kelsey, Prasad, Rajendra, Praveen, Devarsatee, Premji, Zul, Ramirez-Villalobos, Dolores, Rarau, Patricia, Remolador, Hazel, Romero, Minerva, Said, Mwanaidi, Sanvictores, Diozele, Sazawal, Sunil, Streatfield, Peter K., Tallo, Veronica, Vadhatpour, Alireza, Vano, Miriam, Murray, Christopher J. L., Lopez, Alan D.
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Language:Inglês
Published: BioMed Central 2015
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4672473/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26644140
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12916-015-0527-9
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