Table 1 Comparison of physician consensus (PC) and community coordinator (CC) for underlying neonatal cause of death (COD)
From: Classifying perinatal mortality using verbal autopsy: is there a role for nonphysicians?
CC for underlying cause of death | PC for underlying cause of death | CC total | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Â | Preterm/ Low birth weight | Â | Asphyxia | Fetal Trauma | Tetanus | Unknown/ no cause | Other1 | Â |
Preterm/low birth weight | 14 | 11 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 31 |
Infection | 1 | 19 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 23 |
Asphyxia | 4 | 5 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 22 |
Fetal trauma | 0 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 |
Tetanus | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 6 |
Unknown/no cause | 0 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 12 |
Other1 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 17 |
PC total | 20 | 52 | 31 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 118 |