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Open AccessIncidence of lower respiratory tract infection and associated viruses in a birth cohort in the Philippines
Lower respiratory tract infection (LRTI) is an important cause of morbidity and mortality in infants and young children. However, the etiological role of viruses and the timing of develo** LRTI are not well ...
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Maternal anemia type during pregnancy is associated with anemia risk among offspring during infancy
We evaluated the association between etiology of maternal anemia and iron status throughout infancy.
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Open AccessOn the estimation of population cause-specific mortality fractions from in-hospital deaths
Almost all countries without complete vital registration systems have data on deaths collected by hospitals. However, these data have not been widely used to estimate cause of death (COD) patterns in populatio...
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Open AccessAssessing the quality of medical death certification: a case study of concordance between national statistics and results from a medical record review in a regional hospital in the Philippines
Medical certificates of cause of death (MCCOD) issued by hospital physicians are a key input to vital registration systems. Deaths certified by hospital physicians have been implicitly considered to be of high...
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Open AccessCollecting verbal autopsies: improving and streamlining data collection processes using electronic tablets
There is increasing interest in using verbal autopsy to produce nationally representative population-level estimates of causes of death. However, the burden of processing a large quantity of surveys collected ...
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Open AccessThe paradox of verbal autopsy in cause of death assignment: symptom question unreliability but predictive accuracy
We believe that it is important that governments understand the reliability of the mortality data which they have at their disposable to guide policy debates. In many instances, verbal autopsy (VA) will be the...
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Open AccessWhat is the optimal recall period for verbal autopsies? Validation study based on repeat interviews in three populations
One key contextual feature in Verbal Autopsy (VA) is the time between death and survey administration, or recall period. This study quantified the effect of recall period on VA performance by using a paired da...
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Open AccessA shortened verbal autopsy instrument for use in routine mortality surveillance systems
Verbal autopsy (VA) is recognized as the only feasible alternative to comprehensive medical certification of deaths in settings with no or unreliable vital registration systems. However, a barrier to its use b...
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Open AccessImproving performance of the Tariff Method for assigning causes of death to verbal autopsies
Reliable data on the distribution of causes of death (COD) in a population are fundamental to good public health practice. In the absence of comprehensive medical certification of deaths, the only feasible way...
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Open AccessUsing verbal autopsy to measure causes of death: the comparative performance of existing methods
Monitoring progress with disease and injury reduction in many populations will require widespread use of verbal autopsy (VA). Multiple methods have been developed for assigning cause of death from a VA but the...
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Open AccessPopulation Health Metrics Research Consortium gold standard verbal autopsy validation study: design, implementation, and development of analysis datasets
Verbal autopsy methods are critically important for evaluating the leading causes of death in populations without adequate vital registration systems. With a myriad of analytical and data collection approaches...
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Open AccessCapture-recapture analysis of all-cause mortality data in Bohol, Philippines
Despite the importance of mortality data for effective planning and monitoring of health services, official reporting systems rarely capture every death. The completeness of death reporting and the subsequent ...
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Open AccessA cross-sectional study of the prevalence of intensity of infection with Schistosoma japonicumin 50 irrigated and rain-fed villages in Samar Province, the Philippines
Few studies have described heterogeneity in Schistosoma japonicum infection intensity, and none were done in Philippines. The purpose of this report is to describe the village-to-village variation in the prevalen...
