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Table 7 Summary diagnostic agreement and reliability of the medical assistant approach compared to physician (at least two physicians agreeing on a cause) for assigning major direct causes 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?

  

Diagnostic agreement

Reliability

Condition

Review

Method

Sensitivity

(%)

Specificity

(%)

PPV

(%)

Kappa

Strength of agreement

Prematurity/LBW

MA

52.7

96.1

70.7

0.55

Moderate

Birth asphyxia

MA

83.5

93.0

90.7

0.77

Good

RDS

MA

80.0

94.4

51.3

0.59

Moderate

Pneumonia

MA

75.0

94.2

42.9

0.51

Moderate

Sepsis/Meningitis

MA

47.7

97.5

72.4

0.53

Moderate