A comparison of physicians and medical assistants in interpreting verbal autopsy interviews for allocating cause of neonatal death in Matlab, Bangladesh: can medical assistants be considered an alternative to physicians?

Table 1 Agreement between physicians interpreting the same VA reports

	Neonatal deaths (N = 365)
Level of physician agreement	n	%
No agreement	26	(7.1)
Two physicians agreed on a cause	187	(51.2)
Three physicians agreed on a cause	152	(41.6)
At least two physicians agreed	339	(92.9)
Total deaths = 365

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