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Table 5 Agreement between physician and InterVA cause of death allocation by year

From: Verbal autopsy-based cause-specific mortality trends in rural KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, 2000-2009

Year

Agreement

Kappa

(95% confidence interval)

p

2000

78%

0.67 (0.64-0.70)

< 0.0001

2001

82%

0.72 (0.69-0.74)

< 0.0001

2002

82%

0.71 (0.68-0.74)

< 0.0001

2003

78%

0.66 (0.63-0.69)

< 0.0001

2004

77%

0.66 (0.63-0.69)

< 0.0001

2005

75%

0.63 (0.61-0.66)

< 0.0001

2006

76%

0.66 (0.63-0.69)

< 0.0001

2007

79%

0.69 (0.66-0.72)

< 0.0001

2008

79%

0.72 (0.69-0.75)

< 0.0001