Use of smartphone for verbal autopsy
File(s)
Accepted version
Author(s)
Type
Journal Article
Abstract
Traditionally, verbal autopsies (VA) are collected on paper-based questionnaires and reviewed by physicians for cause of death assignment, it is resource intensive and time consuming. The Population Health Metrics Research Consortium VA questionnaires was made available on an Android-based application and cause of death was derived using the Tariff method. Over one year, all adult deaths occurring in 48 villages in 4 counties were identified and a VA interview was conducted using the smartphone VA application. A total of 507 adult deaths were recorded and VA interviews were conducted. Cardiovascular disease was the leading cause of death (35.3%) followed by injury (14.6%) and neoplasms (13.5%). The total cost of the pilot study was USD28 835 (USD0.42 per capita). The interviewers found use of smartphones to conduct interviews to be easier. The study showed that using a smartphone application for VA interviews was feasible for implementation in rural China.
Date Issued
2016-10-01
Date Acceptance
2016-09-01
Citation
Asia-Pacific Journal of Public Health, 2016, 28 (7), pp.601-610
ISSN
1010-5395
Publisher
SAGE Publications
Start Page
601
End Page
610
Journal / Book Title
Asia-Pacific Journal of Public Health
Volume
28
Issue
7
Copyright Statement
© 2016 APJPH. The final, definitive version of this paper has been published by Sage Publications Ltd. All rights reserved. It is available at: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1010539516667780
Identifier
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27609182
PII: 1010539516667780
Subjects
demography
epidemiology
global health
health informatics
verbal autopsy
Adult
Autopsy
Cause of Death
China
Costs and Cost Analysis
Feasibility Studies
Female
Humans
Interviews as Topic
Male
Pilot Projects
Rural Population
Smartphone
Publication Status
Published
Coverage Spatial
China
Date Publish Online
2016-09-08