학술논문
Validation of SmartVA using conventional autopsy: a study of adult deaths in Brazil
Document Type
Article
Author
Hart, John D.; de André, Paulo Afonso; de André, Carmen Diva Saldiva; Adair, Tim; Barroso, Lucia Pereira; Valongueiro, Sandra; Bierrenbach, Ana Luiza; de Carvalho, Patrícia Ismael; Antunes, Maria Bernadete de Cerqueira; de Oliveira, Conceição Maria; Pereira, Luiz Alberto Amador; Minto, Cátia Martinez; Bezerra, Tânia Maria da Silva; Costa, Sérgio Parente; de Azevedo, Bárbara Araújo; de Lima, José Ricardo Alves; Mota, Denise Souza de Meira; Ramos, Ana Maria de Oliveira; de Souza, Maria de Fátima Marinho; da Silva, Luiz Fernando Ferraz; França, Elisabeth Barboza; McLaughlin, Deirdre; Riley, Ian D.; Saldiva, Paulo Hilário Nascimento
Source
The Lancet Regional Health - Americas; 20210101, Issue: Preprints
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ISSN
2667193X
Abstract
Accurate cause of death data are essential to guide health policy. However, mortality surveillance is limited in many low-income countries. In such settings, verbal autopsy (VA) is increasingly used to provide population-level cause of death data, now widely interpreted using the automated algorithms SmartVA and InterVA. Here we use conventional autopsy as the gold standard to validate SmartVA methodology.