Reporting of ethics in peer-reviewed verbal autopsy studies: a systematic review
Author(s) -
Rohina Joshi,
Neha Faruqui,
Shilpa R. Nagarajan,
Rasika Rampatige,
Alex Martiniuk,
Hebe Gouda
Publication year - 2017
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/dyx216
Subject(s) - respondent , confidentiality , interview , medicine , medline , institutional review board , verbal autopsy , family medicine , cause of death , psychology , psychiatry , pathology , disease , political science , law
Verbal autopsy (VA) is a method that determines the cause of death by interviewing a relative of the deceased about the events occurring before the death, in regions where medical certification of cause of death is incomplete. This paper aims to review the ethical standards reported in peer-reviewed VA studies.
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