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Perfil epidemiologico dos obitos por virus de imunodeficiencia humanas/sida em mocambique durante ano de 2019
Epidemiological profile of human immunodeficiency virus/aids deaths in mozambique in 2019

Introdução: O HIV/SIDA é um problema de saúde pública no mundo. Em Moçambique a taxa de prevalência actualizada em 2021 foi 12,5%, e cerca de 27% e 11% das mortes em 2007 e 2019 que ocorreram em todas as idades estavam relacionados ao HIV. Foi objectivo deste trabalho analisar o perfil epidemioló...

Limitations to current methods to estimate cause of death: a validation study of a verbal autopsy model

Gates Open Res; 16 (1), 2020
Background: Accurate information on causes of death (CoD) is essential to estimate burden of disease, track global progress, prioritize cost-effective interventions, and inform policies to reduce mortality. In low-income settings, where a significant proportion of deaths take place at home or in poorly-r...

Contribution of the clinical information to the accuracy of the minimally invasive and the complete diagnostic autopsy

Hum. pathol; 85 (), 2019
Embora o diagnóstico de autópsia inclua rotineiramente uma avaliação completa de todos os resultados patológicos disponíveis e também de qualquer dado clínico disponível, a contribuição dessas informações clínicas para o rendimento diagnóstico da autópsia não foi analisada. Nosso objetiv...

Postmortem interval and diagnostic performance of the autopsy methods

Sci. rep. (Nat. Publ. Group); 8 (16112), 2018
Postmortem studies, including the complete diagnostic autopsy (CDA) and the minimally invasive autopsy (MIA), an innovative approach to post-mortem sampling and cause of death investigation, are commonly performed within 24 hours after death because the quality of the tissues deteriorates over time. This...

Healthcare providers' views and perceptions on post-mortem procedures for cause of death determination in Southern Mozambique

PLos ONE; 13 (7), 2018
Background: The minimally invasive autopsy (MIA) is being investigated as an alternative to the complete diagnostic autopsy (CDA), gold standard for CoD determination, in settings where CDA is unfeasible and/or unacceptable. We aimed to explore healthcare providers' views and perceptions on theoretical a...

Validity of a Minimally Invasive Autopsy for Cause of Death Determination in Adults in Mozambique: An Observational Study

PloS med; 13 (11), 2016
There is an urgent need to identify tools able to provide reliable information on the cause of death in low-income regions, since current methods (verbal autopsy, clinical records, and complete autopsies) are either inaccurate, not feasible, or poorly accepted. We aimed to compare the performance of a st...