Comparing tariff and medical assistant assigned causes of death from verbal autopsy interviews in Matlab, Bangladesh: implications for a health and demographic surveillance system

• Main Authors: Riley H. Hazard (Author), Nurul Alam (Author), Hafizur Rahman Chowdhury (Author), Tim Adair (Author), Saidul Alam (Author), Peter Kim Streatfield (Author), Ian Douglas Riley (Author), Alan D. Lopez (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2018-06-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Deaths in developing countries often occur outside health facilities, making it extremely difficult to gather reliable cause of death (COD) information. Automated COD assignment using a verbal autopsy instrument (VAI) has been proposed as a reliable and cost-effective alternative...