A Shortened Verbal Autopsy Instrument for Use in Routine Mortality Surveillance Systems

Download or read book A Shortened Verbal Autopsy Instrument for Use in Routine Mortality Surveillance Systems written by Taizhou Taizhou Press and published by . This book was released on 2015-12-19 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Verbal autopsy (VA) is recognized as the only feasible alternative to comprehensive medical certification of deaths in settings with no or unreliable vital registration systems. However, a barrier to its use by national registration systems has been the amount of time and cost needed for data collection. Therefore, a short VA instrument (VAI) is needed. In this paper we describe a shortened version of the VAI developed for the Population Health Metrics Research Consortium (PHMRC) Gold Standard Verbal Autopsy Validation Study using a systematic approach.