Table 7

Discrepancies observed between verbal autopsy diagnoses and medical record review in the validation sample

Causes of death

Medical records diagnoses

Verbal autopsy diagnoses

5

20

25

52

66

67

68

69

74

76

77

79

80

81

84

All other causes

Total

Tuberculosis (5)

10

9

2

1

1

1

3

6

4

2

3

4

46

HIV/AIDS (20)

116

2

1

4

123

Other infectious diseases (25)

1

8

8

2

1

1

1

1

6

29

Diabetes (52)

3

1

101

5

29

3

19

7

6

2

1

7

3

13

24

224

Hypertensive diseases (66)

1

7

7

10

1

5

5

1

1

2

9

5

54

Ischemic heart diseases (67)

2

4

1

14

11

101

13

6

4

7

4

2

7

23

199

Other heart diseases (68)

1

4

17

10

7

3

2

1

1

2

16

64

Cerebrovascular diseases (69)

2

1

1

13

3

15

10

184

9

5

1

1

3

1

4

36

285

Pneumonia (74)

2

5

2

4

1

3

2

18

6

1

1

2

3

11

61

COPD (76)

4

4

2

2

7

4

4

4

88

1

1

2

2

6

16

147

Other respiratory diseases (77)

1

2

1

1

2

2

3

1

1

2

1

17

Peptic ulcer (79)

1

1

3

1

1

1

10

5

5

2

2

32

Liver diseases (80)

7

1

2

2

3

3

1

1

50

7

2

14

93

Other digestive diseases (81)

1

1

1

3

1

2

11

2

10

34

Genitourinary diseases (84)

1

5

15

1

3

2

2

2

3

3

33

18

86

All other causes

8

29

8

13

6

16

14

32

21

17

5

1

28

13

17

836

1064

Total

31

191

25

158

58

203

64

269

85

143

21

16

112

53

107

1022

2558

Polprasert et al. Population Health Metrics 2010 8:13   doi:10.1186/1478-7954-8-13