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Users' guides to the medical literature: how to use an article about mortality in a humanitarian emergency.
Article in Conflict and health, 2008. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.
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10 citing papers in PubMed.
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- High HIV prevalence among decedents received by two high-volume mortuaries in Kisumu, western Kenya, 2019.PloS one · 2021Article
- Evaluation of an HIV-Related Mortuary Surveillance System - Nairobi, Kenya, Two Sites, 2015.Morbidity and mortality weekly report. Surveillance summaries (Washington, D.C. : 2002) · 2018Article
- Conflict and Health: seven years of advancing science in humanitarian crises.Conflict and health · 2014Article
- Mortality in Iraq associated with the 2003-2011 war and occupation: findings from a national cluster sample survey by the university collaborative Iraq Mortality Study.PLoS medicine · 2013Article
- Implementation and utilisation of community-based mortality surveillance: a case study from Chad.Conflict and health · 2012Article
- A two-stage cluster sampling method using gridded population data, a GIS, and Google Earth(TM) imagery in a population-based mortality survey in Iraq.International journal of health geographics · 2012Article
- Learning lessons from field surveys in humanitarian contexts: a case study of field surveys conducted in North Kivu, DRC 2006-2008.Conflict and health · 2009Article
- Mortality, violence and access to care in two districts of Port-au-Prince, Haiti.Conflict and health · 2009Article
- A new tool for measuring the brutality of war.PLoS medicine · 2008Article
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Abstract
The accurate interpretation of mortality surveys in humanitarian crises is useful for both public health responses and security responses. Recent examples suggest that few medical personnel and researchers can accurately interpret the validity of a mortality survey in these settings. Using an example of a mortality survey from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), we demonstrate important methodological considerations that readers should keep in mind when reading a mortality survey to determine the validity of the study and the applicability of the findings to their settings.
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