Strengthening standardised interpretation of verbal autopsy data: the new InterVA-4 tool.

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Published in Glob Health Action on September 03, 2012

Authors

Peter Byass1, Daniel Chandramohan, Samuel J Clark, Lucia D'Ambruoso, Edward Fottrell, Wendy J Graham, Abraham J Herbst, Abraham Hodgson, Sennen Hounton, Kathleen Kahn, Anand Krishnan, Jordana Leitao, Frank Odhiambo, Osman A Sankoh, Stephen M Tollman

Author Affiliations

1: Umeå Centre for Global Health Research, Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden. peter.byass@epiph.umu.se

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