Validation studies enhance the utility of findings from the application of verbal autopsy. Regular implementation of VA in Thailand could accelerate development of the quality and utility of vital registration data for deaths outside hospitals.
Physician certification training programs were based on the principles of multiple causes of death using the standard international medical certificate of cause of death [35], which is consistently used throughout Thailand for certifying deaths in hospitals. The training programs included exercises to ...
Three specific quality indicators were considered: (i) amount of information, measured by the number of causes of death coded on the death certificate; (ii) intrinsic consistency, explored by application of the International Classification of Disease (ICD) General Principle, using an international ...
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Moreover, these methods need to be capable of realistic application in the poorest populations where physician availability is likely to be extremely limited, thus ensuring compliance with a key tenant of the post-2015 development strategy to ‘leave no one behind’ [4]. A death certificate ...
A death certificate is a legal document which states how and when a person died, and who pronounced them dead.Religious death:For the Roman Catholic Church, death is the “complete and final separation of the soul from the body”. However the Vatican has conceded that diagnosing death is a...
The major difficulties in interpreting epidemiological data are the lack of standardization in death certificate coding and the variability in the definition of SD and SCD. SCD has been defined as “a natural, unexpected fatal event occurring within one hour from the onset of symptoms in an appare...
all of which are conducive to the lack of reproductive success. The application of AMF in potential developmental sites also triggered the death of gravid females, thus denoting the adulticidal potential of this film. It is clear that AMF performed as an oviposition deterrent and as an indirect...
MC Medical certificate of hospital death; CHF Community Health Facility (excluding hospitals) deaths aProportional mortality by cause calculated excluding (1–094) ill-defined and unknown bVanuatu national proportional mortality by cause weighted by data sources (MC and CHF) for age group by sex dea...
a member of the CBTB with valid transport certificate arrives at the clinic and transports the cadaver to the facility of the CBTB. The dissection starts immediately after the arrival of the cadaver (usually 1–1.5 h post-mortem), meaning that on average, the brain tissue can be fixed within...