Collecting verbal autopsies: improving and streamlining data collection processes using electronic tablets

• Main Authors: Abraham D. Flaxman (Author), Andrea Stewart (Author), Jonathan C. Joseph (Author), Nurul Alam (Author), Sayed Saidul Alam (Author), Hafizur Chowdhury (Author), Meghan D. Mooney (Author), Rasika Rampatige (Author), Hazel Remolador (Author), Diozele Sanvictores (Author), Peter T. Serina (Author), Peter Kim Streatfield (Author), Veronica Tallo (Author), Christopher J. L. Murray (Author), Bernardo Hernandez (Author), Alan D. Lopez (Author), Ian Douglas Riley (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2018-02-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background There is increasing interest in using verbal autopsy to produce nationally representative population-level estimates of causes of death. However, the burden of processing a large quantity of surveys collected with paper and pencil has been a barrier to scaling up verbal autopsy s...