Jha, Prabhat
Kumar, Dinesh
Dikshit, Rajesh
Budukh, Atul
Begum, Rehana
Sati, Prabha
Kolpak, Patrycja
Wen, Richard
Raithatha, Shyamsundar J.
Shah, Utkarsh
Li, Zehang Richard
Aleksandrowicz, Lukasz
Shah, Prakash
Piyasena, Kapila
McCormick, Tyler H.
Gelband, Hellen
Clark, Samuel J.
Funding for this research was provided by:
Canadian Institutes of Health Research (FDN 154277)
Foundation for the National Institutes of Health (1R01TW007939-01, 1R01HD086227, K01HD078452)
Article History
Received: 22 December 2018
Accepted: 28 May 2019
First Online: 27 June 2019
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: The Pramukhswami Medical College and Tata Memorial Centre institutional ethics committees approved the study for the respective sites (Nos HREC/HMPCMCE/243/15 and TMC/IERB/1/77/05, respectively). The International Institute of Population Sciences led a pilot study of 1215 deaths in Amravati district in rural Maharashtra, also in Western India, which established procedures used in the main study. Trial registration: ExternalRef removed, NCT02810366.
: Not applicable.
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