Factors associated with physician agreement on verbal autopsy of over 27000 childhood deaths in India.

Each year, more than 10 million children younger than five years of age die. The large majority of these deaths occur in the developing world. The verbal autopsy (VA) is a tool designed to ascertain cause of death in such settings. While VA has been validated against hospital diagnosed cause of deat...

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Main Authors: Shaun K Morris, Diego G Bassani, Rajesh Kumar, Shally Awasthi, Vinod K Paul, Prabhat Jha
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2010-03-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2833201?pdf=render