作者
Peter Byass, Daniel Chandramohan, Samuel J Clark, Lucia D'ambruoso, Edward Fottrell, Wendy J Graham, Abraham J Herbst, Abraham Hodgson, Sennen Hounton, Kathleen Kahn, Anand Krishnan, Jordana Leitao, Frank Odhiambo, Osman A Sankoh, Stephen M Tollman
发表日期
2012/12/1
期刊
Global health action
卷号
5
期号
1
页码范围
19281
出版商
Taylor & Francis
简介
Background : Verbal autopsy (VA) is the only available approach for determining the cause of many deaths, where routine certification is not in place. Therefore, it is important to use standards and methods for VA that maximise efficiency, consistency and comparability. The World Health Organization (WHO) has led the development of the 2012 WHO VA instrument as a new standard, intended both as a research tool and for routine registration of deaths.
Objective : A new public-domain probabilistic model for interpreting VA data, InterVA-4, is described, which builds on previous versions and is aligned with the 2012 WHO VA instrument.
Design : The new model has been designed to use the VA input indicators defined in the 2012 WHO VA instrument and to deliver causes of death compatible with the International Classification of Diseases version 10 (ICD-10) categorised into 62 groups as defined in the 2012 …
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