Robert Jakob

TL;DR: A drafting group, comprised of experts from the fields of patient safety, classification theory, health informatics, consumer/patient advocacy, law and medicine, identified and defined key patient safety concepts and developed an internationally agreed conceptual framework for the ICPS based upon existing patient safety classifications.

TL;DR: An expert group of researchers, data users, and other stakeholders are involved in developing the necessary standards for verbal autopsy, with sponsorship from the Health Metrics Network (HMN), to achieve a high degree of consistency and comparability across verbal autopsy data sets.

TL;DR: The process used to shorten, simplify, and standardise the VA process to make it feasible for application on a larger scale such as in routine civil registration and vital statistics (CRVS) systems is described.

TL;DR: The threat to the comparability of international clinical morbidity is growing with the development of many country-specific ICD-10 versions, and one solution is to develop a meta-database including all country- specific modifications to ensure more efficient use of people and resources, decrease omissions and errors but most importantly provide a platform for future ICD updates.

TL;DR: Despite all improvements in design and technology, VA is only recommended where medical certification of cause of death is not possible and the method can nevertheless provide sufficient information to guide public health priorities in communities in which physician certification of deaths is largely unavailable.