Table 5 |
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Misclassification patterns suggested by verbal autopsy among the study sample of deaths outside hospitals, Thailand, 2005 |
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Verbal autopsy diagnoses (VA) |
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Cause |
As recorded in VR |
Agreement with VR |
Assigned to other cause |
Assigned from other cause |
Final total (VA) |
Kappa |
|
|
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Ill defined conditions |
3371 |
441 |
2930 |
32 |
473 |
0.11 |
|
Other cancers |
307 |
45 |
262 |
75 |
120 |
0.19 |
|
Other genitourinary diseases |
218 |
85 |
133 |
137 |
222 |
0.36 |
|
All other external causes |
217 |
21 |
196 |
82 |
103 |
0.11 |
|
Liver cancer |
213 |
178 |
35 |
237 |
415 |
0.55 |
|
Transport accidents |
175 |
168 |
7 |
165 |
333 |
0.65 |
|
Diabetes mellitus |
161 |
104 |
57 |
274 |
378 |
0.36 |
|
Other respiratory diseases |
110 |
1 |
109 |
20 |
21 |
0.01 |
|
Diseases of the liver |
108 |
29 |
79 |
84 |
113 |
0.24 |
|
Lung cancer |
104 |
71 |
33 |
121 |
192 |
0.47 |
|
Cerebrovascular diseases |
103 |
64 |
39 |
626 |
690 |
0.14 |
|
Other nervous system disorders |
95 |
14 |
81 |
68 |
82 |
0.15 |
|
HIV/AIDS |
94 |
86 |
8 |
172 |
258 |
0.48 |
|
Drowning |
90 |
71 |
19 |
17 |
88 |
0.79 |
|
Suicide |
83 |
67 |
16 |
49 |
116 |
0.67 |
|
Chronic lower respiratory diseases |
82 |
53 |
29 |
310 |
363 |
0.22 |
|
Respiratory tuberculosis |
72 |
28 |
44 |
108 |
136 |
0.26 |
|
Other heart diseases |
72 |
13 |
59 |
162 |
175 |
0.09 |
|
Pneumonia |
63 |
7 |
56 |
108 |
115 |
0.07 |
|
Ischemic heart disease |
59 |
28 |
31 |
322 |
350 |
0.12 |
|
All other causes |
531 |
1585 |
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Total deaths |
6328 |
6328 |
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Polprasert et al. Population Health Metrics 2010 8:13 doi:10.1186/1478-7954-8-13 |
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