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Verbal autopsy: a tool for determining cause of death in a community
N M Mirza1, W M Macharia, E M Wafula
1Department of Paediatrics, College of Health Sciences, University of Nairobi, Kenya.
East African Medical Journal
|October 1, 1990
Abstract:
Verbal autopsy was used to determine causes of death in 239 children under the age of 5 years. The diagnosis derived from verbal autopsy was corroborated with hospital diagnosis in 39 cases. There was concurrence of diagnosis in 72% of the cases. Using the diagnosis of bronchopneumonia to validate the method, verbal autopsy was found to have a sensitivity of 71%, specificity of 92%, a positive predictive value of 85%. Reliability index of agreement was 0.654. Recall period up to 29 months after death was found to be reliable.