Validation of the symptom pattern method for analyzing verbal autopsy data.

Cause of death data are a critical input to formulating good public health policy. In the absence of reliable vital registration data, information collected after death from household members, called verbal autopsy (VA), is commonly used to study causes of death. VA data are usually analyzed by phys...

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Main Authors: Christopher J L Murray, Alan D Lopez, Dennis M Feehan, Shanon T Peter, Gonghuan Yang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2007-11-01
Series:PLoS Medicine
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2080648?pdf=render