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Verbal autopsy methods questioned.
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- Author(s): Butler, Declan
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Nature. 10/28/2010, Vol. 467 Issue 7319, p1015-1015. 1p. 1 Map.
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The article discusses the controversy concerning the reliability of using verbal autopsy in identifying the mortality rate of a country. It states that the issue emerged after a paper published in "The Lancet" journal reported a different statistics of death in India due to malaria. It mentions that it depicted 125,000-277,000 deaths which surpassed the 30,000 deaths estimated by the World Health Organization (WHO).
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