Unified Mobile App for Streamlining Verbal Autopsy and Cause of Death Assignment in India: Design and Development Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Verbal autopsy (VA) has been a crucial tool in ascertaining population-level cause of death (COD) estimates, specifically in countries where medical certification of COD is relatively limited. The World Health Organization has released an updated instrument (Verbal Autopsy Instrument 2022) that supports electronic data collection methods along with analytical software for assigning COD. This questionnaire encompasses the primary signs and symptoms associated with prevalent diseases across all age groups. Traditional methods have primarily involved paper-based questionnaires and physician-coded approaches for COD assignment, which is time-consuming and resource-intensive. Although computer-coded algorithms have advanced the COD assignment process, data collection in dense

SUBMITTER: Kaur H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11755186 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature