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Despite high levels of under-5 mortality in sub-Saharan Africa, reliable national estimates of causes of death are lacking for most countries.
Verbal autopsy (VA) is one method to obtain valid estimates of causes of death in the absence of valid medical records.
In an investigation by Combs and Slovic, individuals' estimates of causes of mortality were not correlated with actual mortality statistics, but participants' estimates were strongly correlated with the frequency of print media reporting [4].
This finding mirrors the VISION 2020 estimate of avoidable blindness of 80% [5].The overall contribution of cataract as a cause of blindness (48.2%) and glaucoma (15.8) are very similar to the recent WHO estimates of causes of blindness [7].
Many countries, including Canada, rely on registry data to produce estimates of causes of death for their dialysis population.
Empirical Bayes uses a hierarchical generative model, in which estimates of causes at one level act as (empirical) priors for the level below.
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A systematic adjustment for comorbidities that considers all major primary diagnoses and comorbidities is necessary to generate more precise estimates of cause of illness spending.
Although VA is prone to erroneous estimates of cause-specific mortality rates due to misclassification [34], several studies have demonstrated its ability in valid identification of the most common causes of death in many settings [12], [26], [27], [29], [32], [35], [36].
Estimates of cause-specific and sub-distribution hazard ratios are reported in Table 3.
Not all deaths could be classified, which will bias estimates of cause-specific mortality rates downward.
For South Asian countries, validated nationally representative estimates of cause specific mortality were not available [ 6].
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