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Table 5 List of symptoms that are sequentially removed from the analysis.

From: Designing verbal autopsy studies

 

prevalence

 

symptoms

hospital

community

mean square error

-

-

-

0.0016

fever

72.6

45.4

0.0013

pale

33.1

17.4

0.0018

confused

30.8

14.5

0.0012

wheezing

8.3

21.3

0.0012

vomit

49.0

35.5

0.0015

difficult-swallow

18.9

7.4

0.0015

diarrhoea

29.8

20.9

0.0014

chest-pain

43.9

33.0

0.0017

pins-feet

14.6

8.5

0.0015

many-urine

8.4

5.3

0.0016

breathless-flat

28.2

35.5

0.0015

pain-swallow

15.5

6.7

0.0015

mouth-sores

22.7

13.8

0.0018

cough

50.0

38.7

0.0020

body-stiffness

6.9

2.5

0.0021

puffiness-face

11.7

11.3

0.0025

breathless-light

34.9

33.3

0.0027