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Table 6 Cause-specific mortality fraction of physician (at least two physicians agreed) and medical assistant-assigned direct cause of death

From: 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?

 

Physician

MA

Cause of death

N

%

N

%

Birth asphyxia

164

(44.9)

151

(41.5)

Prematurity/LBW Weight

55

(15.1)

41

(11.3)

Sepsis/Meningitis

45

(12.3)

29

(8.0)

RDS

25

(6.9)

39

(10.7)

Pneumonia

20

(5.5)

35

(9.6)

Others

    

   Congenital anomaly

3

(0.8)

10

(2.8)

   Specified rarea

22

(6.0)

57

(15.7)

Undeterminedb

26

(7.1)

n/a

n/a

Unspecified cause

5

(1.4)

2

(0.6)

Total

365

(100)

364

(100)

  1. a Causes with small numbers are grouped under other specified
  2. b Cause where three physicians' differed on a cause of death
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