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Population Health Metrics Research Consortium gold standard verbal autopsy validation study: design, implementation, and development of analysis datasets

Christopher JL Murray*, Alan D Lopez, Robert Black, Ramesh Ahuja, Said M Ali, Abdullah Baqui, Lalit Dandona, Emily Dantzer, Vinita Das, Usha Dhingra, Arup Dutta, Wafaie Fawzi, Abraham D Flaxman, Sara Gómez, Bernardo Hernández, Rohina Joshi, Henry Kalter, Aarti Kumar, Vishwajeet Kumar, Rafael Lozano, Marilla Lucero, Saurabh Mehta, Bruce Neal, Summer L Ohno, Rajendra Prasad, Devarsetty Praveen, Zul Premji, Dolores Ramírez-Villalobos, Hazel Remolador, Ian Riley, Minerva Romero, Mwanaidi Said, Diozele Sanvictores, Sunil Sazawal and Veronica Tallo

  • * Corresponding author: Christopher JL Murray cjlm@uw.edu

Population Health Metrics 2011, 9:27 doi:10.1186/1478-7954-9-27

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Causes of death in Tonga: quality of certification and implications for statistics

Karen L Carter, Sione Hufanga, Chalapati Rao, Sione Akauola, Alan D Lopez, Rasika Rampitage, Richard Taylor Population Health Metrics 2012, 10:4 (5 March 2012)

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Exploring the role narrative free-text plays in discrepancies between physician coding and the InterVA regarding determination of malaria as cause of death, in a malaria holo-endemic region

Johanna C Rankin, Eva Lorenz, Florian Neuhann, Maurice Ye, Ali Sie, Heiko Becher, Heribert Ramroth Malaria Journal 2012, 11:51 (21 February 2012)

An interesting exploration of some the methodological difficulties of detecting malaria using verbal autopsy, and interpreting verbal autopsy material both by physicians and a probabilistic model.

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Performance of InterVA for assigning causes of death to verbal autopsies: multisite validation study using clinical diagnostic gold standards

Rafael Lozano, Michael K Freeman, Spencer L James, Benjamin Campbell, Alan D Lopez, Abraham D Flaxman, Christopher JL Murray, Population Health Metrics 2011, 9:50 (5 August 2011)

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Assessing quality of medical death certification: Concordance between gold standard diagnosis and underlying cause of death in selected Mexican hospitals

Bernardo Hernández, Dolores Ramírez-Villalobos, Minerva Romero, Sara Gómez, Charles Atkinson, Rafael Lozano Population Health Metrics 2011, 9:38 (4 August 2011)

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Direct estimation of cause-specific mortality fractions from verbal autopsies: multisite validation study using clinical diagnostic gold standards

Abraham D Flaxman, Alireza Vahdatpour, Spencer L James, Jeanette K Birnbaum, Christopher JL Murray, Population Health Metrics 2011, 9:35 (4 August 2011)

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Performance of physician-certified verbal autopsies: multisite validation study using clinical diagnostic gold standards

Rafael Lozano, Alan D Lopez, Charles Atkinson, Mohsen Naghavi, Abraham D Flaxman, Christopher JL Murray, Population Health Metrics 2011, 9:32 (4 August 2011)

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Performance of the Tariff Method: validation of a simple additive algorithm for analysis of verbal autopsies

Spencer L James, Abraham D Flaxman, Christopher JL Murray, Population Health Metrics 2011, 9:31 (4 August 2011)

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Simplified Symptom Pattern Method for verbal autopsy analysis: multisite validation study using clinical diagnostic gold standards

Christopher JL Murray, Spencer L James, Jeanette K Birnbaum, Michael K Freeman, Rafael Lozano, Alan D Lopez, Population Health Metrics 2011, 9:30 (4 August 2011)

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Random forests for verbal autopsy analysis: multisite validation study using clinical diagnostic gold standards

Abraham D Flaxman, Alireza Vahdatpour, Sean Green, Spencer L James, Christopher JL Murray, Population Health Metrics 2011, 9:29 (4 August 2011)

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Robust metrics for assessing the performance of different verbal autopsy cause assignment methods in validation studies

Christopher JL Murray, Rafael Lozano, Abraham D Flaxman, Alireza Vahdatpour, Alan D Lopez Population Health Metrics 2011, 9:28 (4 August 2011)

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Whither verbal autopsy?

Peter Byass Population Health Metrics 2011, 9:23 (1 August 2011)

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