Usefulness of the Population Health Metrics Research Consortium gold standard verbal autopsy data for general verbal autopsy methods

Byass, Peter

doi:10.1186/1741-7015-12-23

Table 1 Summary of PHMRC VA dataset for 12,530 deaths by cause of death, age group (adult, child and neonate) and site

From: Usefulness of the Population Health Metrics Research Consortium gold standard verbal autopsy data for general verbal autopsy methods

Site	Andhra Pradesh			Bohol			Dar es Salaam			Mexico City			Pemba			Uttar Pradesh			Total
Cause of death category	Ad	Ch	Ne	Ad	Ch	Ne	Ad	Ch	Ne	Ad	Ch	Ne	Ad	Ch	Ne	Ad	Ch	Ne	Total
AIDS	136	1					203	19		120						43			522
Acute myocardial infarction	101			116			3			76						104			400
Asthma	21			6			12			1			6			1			47
Birth asphyxia			115			50			134			45			66			52	462
Bite of venomous animal	31	33		1						1						33	21		120
Breast cancer	3			28			90			69						5			195
COPD	25			4			2			63						77			171
Cervical cancer	3			9			108			31						4			155
Cirrhosis	51			39			27			133						63			313
Colorectal cancer	7			24			33			35									99
Congenital malformation			63			41			62			61			19			3	249
Diabetes	88			77			59			105			38			47			414
Diarrhea/dysentery	77	35		27	22		37	50		18	8		21	64		48	77		484
Drowning	32	29		4			9	13			4		28	6		33	31		189
Encephalitis		7															34		41
Epilepsy	30			5			6			2						5			48
Esophageal cancer	1			5			34												40
Falls	32	12		38	6		11	1		36	2		26	4		30	24		222
Fires	35	30		7			25	15		18	1		6	7		31	15		190
Hemorrhagic fever		30			13			1									7		51
Homicide	31			35			30			37			3			31			167
Leukemia/lymphomas	7			15			59			72						3			156
Lung cancer	5			23			11			59						8			106
Malaria	29	12					34	102					2	2		35			216
Maternal	71			41			135			39			46			136			468
Measles					1												22		23
Meningitis		6			2			23									27		58
Meningitis/sepsis			2			19			132			7			1			5	166
Other cancers		7			8			2			3						8		28
Other cardiovascular diseases	76	14		78	12		112	32		81	7					69	11		492
Other defined causes of child deaths		31			20			31			48			30			34		194
Other digestive diseases		5			18			9			13			3					48
Other infectious diseases	34	4		51	9		37	9		37	6		3	2		101	37		330
Other injuries	31			7			23			2			3			37			103
Other non-communicable diseases	90			125			171			122			54			37			599
Pneumonia	55	102	7	142	124	18	95	111	43	102	22		41	134	2	105	39	13	1155
Poisonings	30	3		3	3		8	2		9			1	1		35	9		104
Preterm delivery			85			90			244			127			53			61	660
Prostate cancer	1			4			32			11									48
Renal failure	102			68			49			92						105			416
Road traffic	39	33		55	3		31	15		34	2		11	8		32	31		294
Sepsis		29			21			32			10						46		138
Stillbirth			102			156			435			75			119			118	1005
Stomach cancer	5			5			21			31									62
Stroke	125			179			103			122						101			630
Suicide	49			16			13			11			2			33			124
TB	101			22			103			17			6			27			276
Violent death		26															26		52
ALL CAUSES	1,554	449	374	1,259	262	374	1,726	467	1,050	1,586	126	315	297	261	260	1,419	499	252	12,530

Ad, adult; Ch, children; COPD, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; Ne, neonate; PHMRC, Population Health Metrics Research Consortium; TB, tuberculosis; VA, verbal autopsy.

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