A shortened verbal autopsy instrument for use in routine mortality surveillance systems

Rajendra Prasad | Abraham D. Flaxman | Bernardo Hernandez | Christopher J. L. Murray | Ian Riley | Bruce Neal | Devarsetty Praveen | Saurabh Mehta | Gary L Darmstadt | Rafael Lozano | Rakhi Dandona | Lalit Dandona | Rohina Joshi | Rasika Rampatige | Alan D. Lopez | Michael K. Freeman | Veronica Tallo | Nurul Alam | Wafaie Fawzi | Usha Dhingra | Sunil Sazawal | L. Dandona | R. Dandona | C. Murray | W. Fawzi | A. Flaxman | Z. Premji | M. Lucero | R. Prasad | S. James | R. Lozano | B. Neal | R. Black | G. Darmstadt | C. Atkinson | D. Phillips | Michael K Freeman | S. L. Ohno | Kelsey Pierce | H. Kalter | S. S. Alam | A. Baqui | M. Mooney | P. Streatfield | N. Alam | V. Das | Vishwajeet Kumar | Aarti Kumar | P. Serina | Andrea Stewart | Arup Dutta | S. Sazawal | S. Mehta | R. Joshi | D. Praveen | Sayed Saidul Alam | Meghan D Mooney | Andrea Stewart | Robert Black | Marilla Lucero | Vishwajeet Kumar | Aarti Kumar | David Phillips | Charles Atkinson | Peter Serina | Richard Luning | Ramesh Ahuja | Said Mohammed Ali | Abdulla H. Baqui | Hafizur R. Chowdhury | Emily Dantzer | Vinita Das | Arup Dutta | Michael Freeman | Saman Gamage | Sara Gomez | Dilip Hensman | Spencer L. James | Henry D. Kalter | Summer Lockett Ohno | Kelsey Pierce | Zul Premji | Dolores Ramirez-Villalobos | Hazel Remolador | Minerva Romero | Mwanaidi Said | Diozele Sanvictores | Peter K. Streatfield | Alireza Vadhatpour | Nandalal Wijesekara | U. Dhingra | V. Tallo | S. Ali | D. Sanvictores | I. Riley | B. Hernandez | E. Dantzer | Sara Gómez | Dolores Ramírez-Villalobos | Hazel Remolador | Minerva Romero | Mwanaidi Said | R. Ahuja | H. Chowdhury | R. Rampatige | R. Luning | Alireza Vadhatpour | Saman Gamage | D. Hensman | N. Wijesekara | A. Dutta | M. Romero

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