Validation of physician certified verbal autopsy using conventional autopsy: a large study of adult non-external causes of death in a metropolitan area in Brazil.
Carmen Diva Saldiva de AndréAna Luiza BierrenbachLucia Pereira BarrosoPaulo Afonso de AndréLisie Tocci JustoLuiz Alberto Amador PereiraMauro T TaniguchiCátia Martinez MintoPedro Losco TakecianLeonardo Tadashi KamauraJoão Eduardo FerreiraRiley H HazardDeirdre MclaughlinIan RileyAlan D LopezAna Maria de Oliveira RamosMaria de Fatima Marinho de SouzaElisabeth Barboza FrançaPaulo Hilário Nascimento SaldivaLuiz Fernando Ferraz da SilvaPublished in: BMC public health (2022)
The PCVA was efficient in attributing some causes individually and proved effective in estimating the CSMF, which indicates that the method is useful to establish public health priorities.