Open AccessThe effect of misclassification error on reported cause-specific mortality fractions from verbal autopsy
Author(s) -
Martha Anker
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
international journal of epidemiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.406
H-Index - 208
eISSN - 1464-3685
pISSN - 0300-5771
DOI - 10.1093/ije/26.5.1090
Subject(s) - verbal autopsy , autopsy , cause of death , medicine , statistics , fraction (chemistry) , sensitivity (control systems) , pediatrics , pathology , mathematics , disease , engineering , chemistry , electronic engineering , organic chemistry
Verbal autopsy (VA) studies are important for measuring cause-specific mortality in areas where medical certification of cause of death is uncommon. This paper explores the effects of misclassification errors on the results of verbal autopsy studies, and recommends ways to take misclassification errors into account in the interpretation of results.
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