Verbal Autopsy: Evaluation of Methods to Certify Causes of Death in Uganda.

To assess different methods for determining cause of death from verbal autopsy (VA) questionnaire data, the intra-rater reliability of Physician-Certified Verbal Autopsy (PCVA) and the accuracy of PCVA, expert-derived (non-hierarchical) and data-driven (hierarchal) algorithms were assessed for deter...

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Main Authors: Arthur Mpimbaza, Scott Filler, Agaba Katureebe, Linda Quick, Daniel Chandramohan, Sarah G Staedke
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0128801