Population Health Metrics

Table 6 Cause-specific mortality fraction estimates when the first four symptoms are removed.

From: Designing verbal autopsy studies

			sequentially removed
cause of death	all 51 symptoms	fever	pale	confused	wheezing	true
HIV	0.146	0.177	0.164	0.185	0.190	0.227
Malaria	0.073	0.082	0.084	0.091	0.101	0.089
Tuberculosis	0.063	0.071	0.086	0.073	0.077	0.035
Infectious diseases	0.058	0.047	0.050	0.044	0.044	0.028
Circulatory diseases	0.225	0.215	0.159	0.163	0.160	0.163
Maternal diseases	0.035	0.026	0.030	0.033	0.032	0.035
Cancer	0.042	0.033	0.033	0.039	0.041	0.092
Respiratory diseases	0.070	0.079	0.070	0.073	0.053	0.046
Injuries	0.039	0.034	0.028	0.023	0.031	0.050
Diabetes	0.113	0.108	0.150	0.133	0.139	0.053
Other diseases I*	0.023	0.031	0.030	0.027	0.027	0.032
Other diseases II	0.170	0.164	0.173	0.159	0.162	0.149

*Note: "other disease I" includes diseases in residual category that are related to internal organs

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