Commentary
Computer-based analysis of verbal autopsies: revolution or evolution?
-
Correspondence: Ian Riley i.riley@uq.edu.au
School of Population Health, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
Population Health Metrics 2011, 9:26 doi:10.1186/1478-7954-9-26
Published: 1 August 2011First paragraph (this article has no abstract)
In this edition of Population Health Metrics, a series of papers describes new, automated methods for analyzing verbal autopsy questionnaires. Are we witnessing a revolution in the computer-based analysis of verbal autopsies? The use of the word, revolution, brings to mind Thomas Kuhn's seminal essay, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, first published in 1962, and his concept of the scientific paradigm [1].