@InterVA

InterVA is a suite of tools for determining cause of death from verbal autopsy interviews - a free resource for all

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Joined June 2011
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Important editorial @WHOBulletin "Mortality surveillance during the #COVID19 pandemic" which is closely linked to new free tools from @WHO @VitalStrat @CDCgov @InterVA and others available at who.int/publications-detail/… who.int/bulletin/volumes/98/…
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Thanks Carla - we hope it will be widely used, specially as the marginal cost when using @InterVA -5 is zero!
Carla Abouzahr@CarlaAbouzahr2 Nov 2019
Replying to @UmuEpiGH @UCGHR @PeterByass @UmeaUniversity
A really important piece of work that helps broaden VA beyond the analysis of medical causes to death to include underlying sociocontextual and health system circumstances.
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What we die from matters - and half of global #deaths are not registered. @WHO sets standards for #verbal_autopsy and the latest @InterVA-5 software can process causes of death. Here's the details and resources in @BMCMedicine rdcu.be/bFdxY
Professor Senait Fisseha@DrSenait11 Jun 2019
Does the news reflect what we die from? - Our World in Data. “The media provides a near-instantaneous snapshot of single events; events that are, in most cases, negative. The persistent, large-scale trends of progress never make the headlines”. ourworldindata.org/does-the-…
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New paper @BMJ_Open exploring the back-stories of external injury deaths identified by @InterVA in rural #SouthAfrica @weallcount2 @annajdare @ldambruoso @VAPARorg @AndyLeather1 @drjackoids bmjopen.bmj.com/content/9/6/…

External injuries, trauma and avoidable deaths in Agincourt, South Africa: a retrospective observ...

Objective Injury burden is highest in low-income and middle-income countries. To reduce avoidable deaths, it is necessary to identify health system deficiencies preventing timely, quality care. We...

bmjopen.bmj.com
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An integrated approach to processing WHO-2016 verbal autopsy data: the InterVA-5 model bmcmedicine.biomedcentral.co…

An integrated approach to processing WHO-2016 verbal autopsy data: the InterVA-5 model

BMC Medicine - Verbal autopsy is an increasingly important methodology for assigning causes to otherwise uncertified deaths, which amount to around 50% of global mortality and cause much...

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One of the most fundamental questions in #globalhealth - what do people die from? For most deaths we do not know the answer but developments in #verbal_autopsy are helping to fill this data gap. Proud to be part of this international scientific collaboration led by @PeterByass
Ed Fottrell@fottrell3 Jun 2019
An integrated approach to processing WHO-2016 verbal autopsy data: the InterVA-5 model bmcmedicine.biomedcentral.co…

An integrated approach to processing WHO-2016 verbal autopsy data: the InterVA-5 model

BMC Medicine - Verbal autopsy is an increasingly important methodology for assigning causes to otherwise uncertified deaths, which amount to around 50% of global mortality and cause much...

link.springer.com
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Great thread summarising the problem of uncounted deaths and the methods being used to fill the data gap for better health planning and goal monitoring in the world's poorest settings #SDGs #globalhealth
Peter Byass@PeterByass31 May 2019
Around 50% of deaths in the world aren't documented according to @WHO, mostly in LMICs, and #verbal_autopsy (VA interviews with witnesses of deaths) is a useful method for tackling this. Cause of death data are important for planning health services.
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More resources are available at github.com/peterbyass/InterV… … and interva.net - including full open-source code and data. Thanks to collaborators @luciadambruoso @sinafala @drjackoids @fottrell @VAPARorg @WeAllCount2 @UCLGlobalHealth @UCGHR @INDEPTHNetwork and all!

GitHub - peterbyass/InterVA-5: files relating to evaluation of InterVA-5 software

files relating to evaluation of InterVA-5 software - peterbyass/InterVA-5

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Around 50% of deaths in the world aren't documented according to @WHO, mostly in LMICs, and #verbal_autopsy (VA interviews with witnesses of deaths) is a useful method for tackling this. Cause of death data are important for planning health services.
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Standards for VA are set by @WHO but software for processing the data into causes of death are also needed. Just out @BMCMedicine are details and resources for the @InterVA-5 model that does this systematically and consistently rdcu.be/bFdxY
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The new model has been developed and tested to be as widely applicable as possible - including accepting input data from the previous @WHO-2012 standard and the SmartVA format media.springernature.com/ful…
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New @BMCMedicine - An integrated approach to processing @WHO-2016 #verbal_autopsy data: the @InterVA-5 model - open-source software included bmcmedicine.biomedcentral.co…

An integrated approach to processing WHO-2016 verbal autopsy data: the InterVA-5 model

BMC Medicine - Verbal autopsy is an increasingly important methodology for assigning causes to otherwise uncertified deaths, which amount to around 50% of global mortality and cause much...

link.springer.com
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Cause of death surveyed in #Uganda using @WHO tools and @InterVA model reported @PLOSONE
PLOS One@PLOSONE14 Feb 2019
Verbal autopsies performed by lay community health workers collect critical #mortality information and can capture information missed by passive surveillance journals.plos.org/plosone/ar…

Community health workers trained to conduct verbal autopsies provide better mortality measures than...

Background In much of sub-Saharan Africa, health facilities serve as the primary source of routine vital statistics. These passive surveillance systems, however, are plagued by infrequent and...

journals.plos.org
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Replying to @InterVA
@InterVA It's great to see a verbal autopsy-based Twitter account - we've got a whole collection of blogs on VA: ow.ly/tJVfd
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To be counted is to become visible. Our 3rd blog on 'verbal #autopsy' with guest blogger, @UCGHR - ow.ly/tJGzZ
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InterVA retweeted
WHOCCVA@WHOCCVA18 Feb 2014
Guest blog by Peter Byass on #verbal_autopsy articles in @BMCMedicine bit.ly/1kRdSZl #globalhealth @InterVA @UCGHR @UmeaUniversity
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InterVA retweeted
WHOCCVA@WHOCCVA4 Feb 2014
Useful new series of articles on #verbalautopsy published @BMCMedicine biomedcentral.com/bmcmed/tag… #globalhealth
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Verbal autopsy & @InterVA used to explore causes of neonatal death associated with maternal infection in South Asia. biomedcentral.com/1471-2393/…
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Replying to @InterVA
@InterVA applied to #HDSS #VerbalAutopsy data - in Jo'burg at @INDEPTHNetwork Scientific Conference 28-31/10/13 indepth-network.org
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InterVA retweeted
WHOCCVA@WHOCCVA21 Sep 2013
Our work on mobile apps for #verbal_autopsy featured on @bbchealth bbc.co.uk/news/health-241648… as trials roll out in #Malawi @UCLGlobalHealth
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