Validity of verbal autopsy procedures for determining cause of death in Tanzania.
- Setel, Philip W
- Whiting, David R
- Hemed, Yusuf
- Chandramohan, Daniel
- Wolfson, Lara J
- Alberti, KGMM
- Lopez, Alan D
DOIAbstract
OBJECTIVES: To validate verbal autopsy (VA) procedures for use in sample vital registration. Verbal autopsy is an important method for deriving cause-specific mortality estimates where disease burdens are greatest and routine cause-specific mortality data do not exist. METHODS: Verbal autopsies and medical records (MR) were collected for 3123 deaths in the perinatal/neonatal period, post-neonatal <5 age group, and for ages of 5 years and over in Tanzania. Causes of death were assigned by physician panels using the International Classification of Disease, revision 10. Validity was measured by: cause-specific mortality fractions (CSMF); sensitivity; specificity and positive predictive value. Medical record diagnoses were scored for degree of ...
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