Improving performance of the Tariff Method for assigning causes of death to verbal autopsies

2015109 citationsJournal Articlegold Open Access

Authors

Peter Serina · Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation

Ian Riley · University of Queensland

Andrea Stewart · University of Washington

Spencer L James · University of Washington

Abraham D. Flaxman · Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation

Rafael Lozano · University of Washington

Bernardo Hernández

Abstract

Tariff 2.0 addresses the main shortcomings of the application of the Tariff Method to analyze data from VAs in community settings. It provides an estimation of COD from VAs with better performance at the individual and population level than the previous version of this method, and it is publicly available for use.

Topics & Keywords

Autopsy Techniques and Outcomes Emergency and Acute Care Studies Health disparities and outcomes

UN Sustainable Development Goals

Good health and well-being

Publication Details

Published in: BMC Medicine

Volume 13, Issue 1, pp. 291-291

DOI: 10.1186/s12916-015-0527-9

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