Verbal autopsy models in determining causes of death

To systematically review current practices, strengths and limitations of existing VA approaches to increase understanding of health system stakeholders and researchers.

• Publication year

  2021

• Venue

  Tropical medicine & international health

• Publication date

  2021-09-09

• Fields of study

  Medicine

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1111/tmi.13678PMID 34498340
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

• Source metadata

  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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• No concepts are published for this paper.

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