Abstract
Estimates of sensitivity and specificity obtained from hospital-based validation studies must be used cautiously as a de facto 'gold standard' for adjusting the misclassification error in CSMF derived from VA. It is not possible to use sensitivity and specificity estimates derived from a location-specific validation study to adjust for misclassification in VA data from populations with substantially different patterns of cause-specific mortality.
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Verbal autopsyMedicineTanzaniaCause of deathAutopsyPopulationDemographyEnvironmental healthPathologyDisease
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- 30
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- 3
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- 509-514
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Daniel Chandramohan,
Philip Setel,
Maria Quigley
(2001).
Effect of misclassification of causes of death in verbal autopsy: can it be adjusted?.
International Journal of Epidemiology
, 30
(3)
, 509-514.
https://doi.org/10.1093/ije/30.3.509
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- 10.1093/ije/30.3.509