Estimating causes of out-of-hospital deaths in China: application of SmartVA methods

• Main Authors: Jinlei Qi (Author), Tim Adair (Author), Hafizur R. Chowdhury (Author), Hang Li (Author), Deirdre McLaughlin (Author), Yunning Liu (Author), Jiangmei Liu (Author), Xinying Zeng (Author), Jinling You (Author), Sonja Firth (Author), Renee Sorchik (Author), Peng Yin (Author), Lijun Wang (Author), Maigeng Zhou (Author), Alan D. Lopez (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2021-05-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Most deaths in China occur at home, making it difficult to collect reliable cause of death (CoD) information. Verbal autopsy (VA) was applied using the SmartVA tool to a sample of home deaths in China to explore its feasibility as a means of improving the quality of CoD data. Met...