Validation of physician certified verbal autopsy using conventional autopsy: a large study of adult non-external causes of death in a metropolitan area in Brazil.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Reliable mortality data are essential for the development of public health policies. In Brazil, although there is a well-consolidated universal system for mortality data, the quality of information on causes of death (CoD) is not even among Brazilian regions, with a high proportion of ill-defined CoD. Verbal autopsy (VA) is an alternative to improve mortality data. This study aimed to evaluate the performance of an adapted and reduced version of VA in identifying the underlying causes of non-forensic deaths, in São Paulo, Brazil. This is the first time that a version of the questionnaire has been validated considering the autopsy as the gold standard.

Methods

The performance of a physician-certified verbal autopsy (PCVA) was evaluated considering conventional auto

SUBMITTER: de Andre CDS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9008898 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature