Enhancing the value of mortality data for health systems: adding Circumstances Of Mortality CATegories (COMCATs) to deaths investigated by verbal autopsy

• Main Authors: Laith Hussain-Alkhateeb (Author), Lucia D'Ambruoso (Author), Stephen Tollman (Author), Kathleen Kahn (Author), Maria Van Der Merwe (Author), Rhian Twine (Author), Linus Schiöler (Author), Max Petzold (Author), Peter Byass (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Taylor & Francis Group, 2019-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Half of the world's deaths and their causes pass unrecorded by routine registration systems, particularly in low- and middle-income countries. Verbal autopsy (VA) collects information on medical signs, symptoms and circumstances from witnesses of a death that is used to assign likely medical ca...