Malaria-attributed death rates in India/Authors' reply

[...] confirmation bias might have led to overdiagnosis of malaria among fever deaths in endemic areas; coding physicians were aware of the state in which each death occurred. [...] although N K Shah and colleagues suggest a case-fatality rate of only 0.1-0.3% for P falciparum, the true risk of deat...

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Published in:The Lancet (British edition) 2011-03, Vol.377 (9770), p.991
Main Authors: Shah, N K, Dhariwal, A C, Sonal, G S, Gunasekar, A, Dye, C, Cibulskis, R, Kumar, Ashwani, Dua, Virendra Kumar, Rathod, Pradipsinh K, Valecha, Neena, Staedke, Sarah, Filler, Scott, Mpimbaza, Arthur, Greenwood, Brian, Chandramohan, Daniel, Basnyat, Buddha, Deonarine, Andrew, Sharma, Vinod P, Jha, Prabhat, Dhingra, Neeraj, Jotkar, Raju M, Peto, Richard
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Fatalities
Malaria
Medical research
Mortality
Studies
Vector-borne diseases
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Summary:[...] confirmation bias might have led to overdiagnosis of malaria among fever deaths in endemic areas; coding physicians were aware of the state in which each death occurred. [...] although N K Shah and colleagues suggest a case-fatality rate of only 0.1-0.3% for P falciparum, the true risk of death in rural untreated individuals with fever due to P falciparum could well be an order of magnitude higher.
ISSN:0140-6736
1474-547X