Validation of physician certified verbal autopsy using conventional autopsy: a large study of adult non-external causes of death in a metropolitan area in Brazil

• Main Authors: Carmen Diva Saldiva de André (Author), Ana Luiza Bierrenbach (Author), Lucia Pereira Barroso (Author), Paulo Afonso de André (Author), Lisie Tocci Justo (Author), Luiz Alberto Amador Pereira (Author), Mauro T. Taniguchi (Author), Cátia Martinez Minto (Author), Pedro Losco Takecian (Author), Leonardo Tadashi Kamaura (Author), João Eduardo Ferreira (Author), Riley H. Hazard (Author), Deirdre Mclaughlin (Author), Ian Riley (Author), Alan D. Lopez (Author), Ana Maria de Oliveira Ramos (Author), Maria de Fatima Marinho de Souza (Author), Elisabeth Barboza França (Author), Paulo Hilário Nascimento Saldiva (Author), Luiz Fernando Ferraz da Silva (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2022-04-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Reliable mortality data are essential for the development of public health policies. In Brazil, although there is a well-consolidated universal system for mortality data, the quality of information on causes of death (CoD) is not even among Brazilian regions, with a high proporti...