Estimating causes of out-of-hospital deaths in China: application of SmartVA methods
Abstract Background Most deaths in China occur at home, making it difficult to collect reliable cause of death (CoD) information. Verbal autopsy (VA) was applied using the SmartVA tool to a sample of home deaths in China to explore its feasibility as a means of improving the quality of CoD data. Met...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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BMC
2021-05-01
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Series: | Population Health Metrics |
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Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1186/s12963-021-00256-1 |