Table 2

Validation characteristics for hospital deaths in Thailand, 2005.

Medical records review

Cause

As in VR data

Matched

Assigned to other causes

Assigned from other causes

Final

Sensitivity (95% CI)

Positive Predictive value (95% CI)

% change in mortality proportion

Septicaemia

470

19

451

10

29

65.5 (48,82)

4.1 (2, 6)

-1517.2

Ill-defined conditions

447

15

432

14

29

51.7 (34 70)

3.4 (2, 5)

-1441.4

Cerebrovascular diseases

262

203

59

183

386

52.7 (48, 58)

77.4 (72, 82)

31.9

Ischaemic heart disease

241

138

76

129

267

51.7 (46, 58)

64.5 (58, 71)

19.9

Pneumonia

207

44

163

68

112

39.3 (30, 48)

21.3 (16. 27)

-84.8

All other external causes

185

17

168

25

42

40.5 (26, 55)

9.2 (5, 13)

-340.5

Other genitourinary diseases

156

51

105

86

137

37.2 (29, 42)

32.7 (25. 40)

-13.9

Lung cancer

102

85

19

26

111

76.6 (69, 84)

83.3 (76, 91)

8.1

Road traffic accidents

92

91

1

122

213

42.7 (36, 49)

98.9 (97, 100)

56.8

Disease of the liver

86

63

23

84

149

42.9 (35, 51)

73.3 (64, 83)

41.5

HIV/AIDS

83

79

4

177

256

30.9 (25, 36)

95.2 (91, 100)

67.6

Other malignant neoplasms

79

24

55

28

52

43.2 (23, 60)

30.4 (20, 41)

-51.9

COPD

77

54

23

105

159

34 (27, 41)

70.1 (66, 80)

51.6

Other digestive diseases

74

17

57

47

64

26.6 (16, 37)

23 (13, 33)

-15.6

Other respiratory diseases

72

10

62

13

23

43.5 (23, 68)

13.9 (6, 22)

-213.0

Other heart diseases

71

14

57

68

82

17.1 (9, 25)

19.7 (11, 29)

13.4

Liver cancer

68

58

10

27

85

68.2 (58, 78)

85.3 (77, 94)

20.0

Other infectious diseases

52

6

46

21

27

22.2 (7, 39)

11.5 (3, 20)

-92.6

Perinatal conditions

42

37

5

12

49

75.5 (63, 88)

88.1 (78, 98)

14.3

Tuberculosis

40

13

27

29

42

31 (17, 45)

32.5 (18, 47)

4.8

All other causes

437

1004

Total

3316

3316

Pattaraarchachai et al. Population Health Metrics 2010 8:12   doi:10.1186/1478-7954-8-12