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Table 3 Median chance-corrected concordance (%) across causes for one, two, and three cause assignments (95% uncertainty interval [UI])

From: Performance of InterVA for assigning causes of death to verbal autopsies: multisite validation study using clinical diagnostic gold standards

Age

Module

One cause

Two causes

Three causes

Adult

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25.2 (25.1, 25.3)

25.1 (25.0, 25.1)

21.7 (21.6, 21.8)

 

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24.2 (24.1, 24.3)

24.0 (23.9, 24.1)

20.6 (20.5, 20.7)

Child

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25.0 (24.7, 25.2)

22.5 (22.3, 22.7)

17.5 (17.3, 17.7)

 

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24.9 (24.7, 25.0)

21.4 (21.3, 21.7)

16.2 (16.1, 16.4)

Neonate

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6.5 (6.2, 6.7)

-22.3 (-22.6, -22.0)

N/A

 

No free text

6.3 (6.1, 6.5)

-22.8 (-23.0, -22.5)

N/A