Community health workers trained to conduct verbal autopsies provide better mortality measures than existing surveillance: Results from a cross-sectional study in rural western Uganda

• Doreen Nabukalu ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: tendoryn@gmail.com

  Affiliation Department of Community Health, Mbarara University of Science & Technology, Mbarara, Uganda

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8567-3399

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• Moses Ntaro,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Project administration

  Affiliation Department of Community Health, Mbarara University of Science & Technology, Mbarara, Uganda

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• Mathias Seviiri,

  Roles Formal analysis

  Affiliation Department of Health, Wakiso District Local Government, Kampala, Uganda

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• Raquel Reyes,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of General Medicine & Clinical Epidemiology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, United States of America

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• Matthew Wiens,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Center for International Child Health, BC Children’s Hospital, Vancouver, BC, Canada

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• Radhika Sundararajan,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Emergency Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical Center, New York, NY, United States of America

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• Edgar Mulogo,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Community Health, Mbarara University of Science & Technology, Mbarara, Uganda

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• Ross M. Boyce

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9489-6324

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