Maternal recall of symptoms associated with childhood deaths in rural east Africa.

Journal article

Verbal autopsies (VA) are frequently used to determine causes of death for individuals for whom there is no reliable clinical information regarding the terminal illness. VA interviews are used to note key symptoms and signs recalled by relatives of the deceased and diagnoses ascribed according to the symptom complexes. The VA technique assumes that individual disease entities have discrete symptom complexes and that these can be accurately recognized and recalled by the interviewees. We have ...

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Authors: Snow, R; Basto de Azevedo, I; Forster, D; Mwankuyse, S; Bomu, G

• Publication status: Published
• Journal: International journal of epidemiology
• Volume: 22
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 677-683
• Publication date: 1993-08-01
• DOI: 10.1093/ije/22.4.677
• EISSN: 1464-3685
• ISSN: 0300-5771
• Language: English
• Keywords: Humans; Tetanus; Rural Health; Wounds and Injuries; Kenya; Seizures; Medical Records; Cause of Death; Infant; Reproducibility of Results; Time Factors; Infant, Newborn; Evaluation Studies as Topic; Kwashiorkor; Child Welfare; Bias (Epidemiology); Child, Preschool; Mothers; Population Surveillance; Bereavement; Medical History Taking; Prospective Studies; Child; Memory; Measles; Tanzania