Improving methods to measure comparable mortality cause (IMMCMC) gold standard verbal autopsy dataset.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Gold standard cause of death data is critically important to improve verbal autopsy (VA) methods in diagnosing cause of death where civil and vital registration systems are inadequate or poor. As part of a three-country research study-Improving Methods to Measure Comparable Mortality by Cause (IMMCMC) study-data were collected on clinicopathological criteria-based gold standard cause of death from hospital record reviews with matched VAs. The purpose of this data note is to make accessible a de-identified format of these gold standard VAs for interested researchers to improve the diagnostic accuracy of VA methods.

Data description

The study was conducted between 2011 and 2014 in the Philippines, Bangladesh, and Papua New Guinea. Gold standard diagnoses of underlyi

SUBMITTER: Hazard RH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8609765 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature