Reporting of ethics in peer-reviewed verbal autopsy studies: a systematic review.

Introduction: Verbal autopsy (VA) is a method that determines the cause of death by interviewing a relative of the deceased about the events occurring before the death, in regions where medical certification of cause of death is incomplete. This paper aims to review the ethical standards reported in peer-reviewed VA studies.

Methods: A systematic review of Medline and Ovid was conducted by two independent researchers.