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Table 7 Numbers of VAs collected by cause of death and gold standard level for child causes

From: Population Health Metrics Research Consortium gold standard verbal autopsy validation study: design, implementation, and development of analysis datasets

Child causes

Level 1

Level 2A

Level 2B

AIDS

19

0

0

AIDS with TB

1

0

0

Bite of venomous animal

54

0

0

Diarrhea/dysentery

255

1

0

Drowning

82

1

0

Encephalitis

41

0

0

Falls

49

0

0

Fires

68

0

0

Hemorrhagic fever

51

0

0

Malaria

59

58

0

Measles

0

23

0

Meningitis

58

0

0

Other cancers

28

0

0

Other cardiovascular diseases

76

0

0

Other defined causes of child deaths

182

0

0

Other digestive diseases

48

0

0

Other infectious diseases

60

0

0

Other respiratory diseases

12

0

0

Pertussis

0

0

0

Pneumonia

272

224

1

Pneumonia and diarrhea

35

3

0

Poisonings

18

0

0

Road traffic

92

0

0

Sepsis (with local bacterial infection)

22

15

0

Sepsis (without local bacterial infection)

39

67

0

TB

4

5

0

Violent death

52

0

0