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Table 2 Median chance-corrected concordance (%) for Tariff and PCVA with 95% uncertainty interval (UI), by age group with and without HCE information

From: Performance of the Tariff Method: validation of a simple additive algorithm for analysis of verbal autopsies

  

Tariff

PCVA

  

Median

95% UI

Median

95% UI

Adult

No HCE

34.3

(34.1, 34.5)

29.7

(29.4, 29.8)

 

HCE

44.5

(44.2, 44.7)

44.6

(44.3, 44.8)

Child

No HCE

28.8

(28.4, 29.2)

36.3

(35.9, 36.6)

 

HCE

39.0

(38.4, 39.4)

47.8

(47.1, 48.3)

Neonate

No HCE

21.6

(21.2, 22.2)

27.6

(27.2, 28.0)

 

HCE

23.9

(23.6, 24.4)

33.3

(32.8, 33.7)

  1. Tariff outperforms or matches the performance of PCVA in the adult module, while PCVA outperforms Tariff in the child module. Results are not comparable for neonates since PCVA can only make cause assignments on six neonate causes, while Tariff makes cause assignments on 11 neonate causes.
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