Author's response to reviews Title: Adaptation of a probabilistic method (InterVA) of verbal autopsy to improve the interpretation of cause of stillbirth and neonatal death in Malawi, Nepal and Zimbabwe Authors:

Adaptation of a probabilistic method (InterVA) of verbal autopsy to improve the interpretation of cause of stillbirth and neonatal death in Malawi, Nepal, and Zimbabwe

BACKGROUND Verbal autopsy (VA) is a widely used method for analyzing cause of death in absence of vital registration systems. We adapted the InterVA method to extrapolate causes of death for stillbirths and neonatal deaths from verbal autopsy questionnaires, using data from Malawi, Zimbabwe, and Nepal. METHODS We obtained 734 stillbirth and neonatal VAs from recent community studies in rural ...

Author's response to reviews Title: Performance of InterVA for Assigning Causes of Death to Verbal Autopsies: Multi-Site Validation Study using Clinical Diagnostic Gold Standards Authors:

Author's response to reviews Title: Validating physician review and probabilistic modelling (InterVA) approaches to verbal autopsy interpretation using hospital causes of adult deaths Authors:

Evasius Bauni ([email protected]) Carolyne Ndila ([email protected]) George Mochamah ([email protected]) Gideon Nyutu ([email protected]) Lena Matata ([email protected]) Charles Ondieki ([email protected]) Barbara Mambo ([email protected]) Maureen Mutinda ([email protected]) Benjamin Tsofa ([email protected]) Eric Maitha (mait...

Validation of the verbal autopsy questionnaire for adult deaths in Iran

Background: Verbal Autopsy Questionnaire (VA) is an important tool to estimate the cause of death among those populations lacking an appropriate death registration system. In this study, the validity and reliability of verbal autopsy were assessed.    Methods: The Persian version of the questionnaire was prepared using the translation and back- translation method. In the first and se...

Cause-specific neonatal mortality: analysis of 3772 neonatal deaths in Nepal, Bangladesh, Malawi and India

OBJECTIVE Understanding the causes of death is key to tackling the burden of three million annual neonatal deaths. Resource-poor settings lack effective vital registration systems for births, deaths and causes of death. We set out to describe cause-specific neonatal mortality in rural areas of Malawi, Bangladesh, Nepal and rural and urban India using verbal autopsy (VA) data. DESIGN We prospe...