Cause-specific mortality patterns among hospital deaths in Thailand: validating routine death certification

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

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