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 4 Kappa score between physicians (two raters) in assigning major cause of cause of death

Cause of death	Physician1 and 2	Physician1 and 3	Physician 2 and 3
	Kappa Score
Prematurity/LBW	0.46	0.31	0.26
Birth asphyxia	0.69	0.68	0.63
RDS	0.51	0.19	0.25
Pneumonia	0.60	0.25	0.38
Sepsis/Meningitis	0.50	0.52	0.42

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