Assessing a new approach to verbal autopsy interpretation in a rural Ethiopian community: the InterVA model

• Main Authors: Fantahun Mesganaw (Author), Fottrell Edward (Author), Berhane Yemane (Author), Wall Stig (Author), Högberg Ulf (Author), Byass Peter (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: The World Health Organization, 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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OBJECTIVE: Verbal autopsy (VA)- the interviewing of family members or caregivers about the circumstances of a death after the event- is an established tool in areas where routine death registration is non-existent or inadequate. We assessed the performance of a probabilistic model (InterVA) for inte...