appears_in: []
contributor:
  email: b.gyori@northeastern.edu
  github: bgyori
  name: Benjamin M. Gyori
  orcid: 0000-0001-9439-5346
depends_on: []
deprecated: false
description: Identifiers assigned by the World Health Organization for coding causes
  of death from verbal autopsy (VA) reports. These codes are produced as outputs in
  standard VA analysis software.
example: VAs-09.01
example_extras:
- VAs-09
github_request_issue: 1739
homepage: https://www.who.int/publications/m/item/verbal-autopsy-standards-the-2016-who-verbal-autopsy-instrument
keywords:
- cause of death
- verbal autopsy
mappings: {}
name: World Health Organization Verbal Autopsy Code
pattern: ^VAs-\d{2}(?:\.\d{2})?$
preferred_prefix: who.va
prefix: who.va
providers: []
publications:
- doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1002486
  pmc: PMC5761828
  pubmed: '29320495'
  title: 'The WHO 2016 verbal autopsy instrument: An international standard suitable
    for automated analysis by InterVA, InSilicoVA, and Tariff 2.0'
  year: 2018
reviewer:
  email: cthoyt@gmail.com
  github: cthoyt
  name: Charles Tapley Hoyt
  orcid: 0000-0003-4423-4370
synonyms: []
