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Enhancing the value of mortality data for health systems: adding Circumstances Of Mortality CATegories (COMCATs) to deaths investigated by verbal autopsy

Hussain-Alkhateeb, Laith, Lucia D’Ambruoso, Stephen Tollman, Kathleen Kahn, Maria Van Der Merwe, Rhian Twine, Linus Schiöler, Max Petzold and Byass. 2019. Enhancing the value of mortality data for health systems: adding Circumstances Of Mortality CATegories (COMCATs) to deaths investigated by verbal autopsy. Global Health Action, 12(1), 1680068. https://doi.org/10.1080/16549716.2019.1680068

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