Unified Mobile App for Streamlining Verbal Autopsy and Cause of Death Assignment in India: Design and Development Study

• Published in: JMIR formative research Vol. 9; p. e59937
• Main Authors: Kaur, Harleen, Tripathi, Stuti, Chalga, Manjeet Singh, Benara, Sudhir K, Dhiman, Amit, Gupta, Shefali, Nair, Saritha, Menon, Geetha, Gulati, B K, Sharma, Sandeep, Sharma, Saurabh
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Canada JMIR Publications 10.01.2025
• Subjects: Accreditation; Algorithms; Application programming interface; Automation; Autopsies; Autopsy - methods; Big Data; Cause of Death; Collaboration; Communication; Data collection; Design and Formative Evaluation of Mobile Apps; Development and Evaluation of Research Methods, Instruments and Tools; Digital Contact Tracing, Digital Proximity Tracing, Precision Public Health; Electronic/Mobile Data Capture, Internet-based Survey & Research Methodology; Humans; India; Innovative Methods in Public Health and Surveillance; Interviews; mHealth for Data Collection and Research; Midwifery; Mobile Applications; Mortality; Nursing; Open data; Original Paper; Physicians; Public (e)Health, Digital Epidemiology and Public Health Informatics; Public health; Quality control; Questionnaires; Rural areas; Surveillance; Surveys and Questionnaires; India; mobile health; verbal autopsy; mHealth; mortality; cause of death; public health; India

Verbal autopsy (VA) has been a crucial tool in ascertaining population-level cause of death (COD) estimates, specifically in countries where medical certification of COD is relatively limited. The World Health Organization has released an updated instrument (Verbal Autopsy Instrument 2022) that supp...