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Table 1 Numbers of items in adult, child, and neonate modules

From: Simplified Symptom Pattern Method for verbal autopsy analysis: multisite validation study using clinical diagnostic gold standards

 

Dichotomous

Continuous

Categorical

Free text

Total

Adult

130

25

32

7*

194

Child

55

13

29

7*

104

Neonate

76

21

33

7*

137

  1. *Free text responses were dichotomized as individual words and expanded into 106, 90, and 39 items for adults, children, and neonates, respectively. Total does not include these expanded items.
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