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This study attempts to provide some methodological detail about the processes involved in undertaking verbal autopsies.
This training covered methods of undertaking verbal autopsy interviews and in the details of the questionnaires used.
Therefore, issues of identifying deaths that have occurred in a population and determining population denominators have to precede undertaking verbal autopsy interviews.
In order to increase participation, healthcare providers could undertake verbal encouragement or study advertisement in practice.
These deaths were verified against the other sources cited above and verbal autopsies were undertaken for 55 of these for the pilot.
The second stage involved re-visiting the households where deaths had occurred to undertake verbal autopsy interviews using questionnaires based on the WHO 2012 standard and translated into the local Tigrigna language.
Most of the work was associated with tracing the deaths, rather than undertaking the verbal autopsy interviews.
Furthermore, by undertaking standardised verbal autopsy (VA) enquiries to follow-up deaths, cause-specific mortality can be assessed within specific childhood age groups to see which cause groups account for substantial components of overall mortality (6).
What is evident from this survey is that tracing the deaths occupied over 95% of the overall effort involved; undertaking the verbal autopsy interviews was a relatively minor part of the overall process.
14 The causes of death were sought chiefly from official death certificates that were supplemented, if necessary, by a review of the medical records or undertaking a verbal autopsy using a validated instrument for those with an ill defined or unknown cause of death reported.
Although physicians have a legal and ethical obligation to obtain consent for medical tests and treatment, in practice many medical interventions are undertaken with verbal consent and may not be specific [29].
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