Table 3 Comparison of physician consensus (PC) and community coordinator (CC) for underlying maternal cause of stillbirth
From: Classifying perinatal mortality using verbal autopsy: is there a role for nonphysicians?
CC for underlying maternal cause of death | PC underlying maternal cause of death | CC total | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Â | Antepartum hemorrhage | Â | Prematurity | Accident | Prolonged labor | Cord prolapse/complication | Malpre-sentation | Unknown/no cause | Other1 | Â |
Antepartum hemorrhage | 8 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
Maternal infection/sepsis | 1 | 32 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 37 |
Prematurity | 3 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 21 |
Maternal accident | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
Prolonged labor | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
Cord prolapse/complication | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 |
Malpresentation | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 5 |
Unknown/no cause | 0 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 11 | 4 | 27 |
Other1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 10 |
PC total | 13 | 50 | 9 | 7 | 15 | 8 | 4 | 16 | 12 | 134 |