Assessing the Diagnostic Accuracy of Physicians for Home Death Certification in Shanghai: Application of SmartVA

• Main Authors: Lei Chen (Author), Tian Xia (Author), Rasika Rampatige (Author), Hang Li (Author), Tim Adair (Author), Rohina Joshi (Author), Zhen Gu (Author), Huiting Yu (Author), Bo Fang (Author), Deirdre McLaughlin (Author), Alan D. Lopez (Author), Chunfang Wang (Author), Zheng'an Yuan (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Frontiers Media S.A., 2022-06-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Approximately 30% of deaths in Shanghai either occur at home or are not medically attended. The recorded cause of death (COD) in these cases may not be reliable. We applied the Smart Verbal Autopsy (VA) tool to assign the COD for a representative sample of home deaths certified by 16 community healt...