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Table 10 Comparison of Chance Corrected Concordance (CCC) for VAs with CCC for death certificates from 34 Mexican public hospitals

From: The paradox of verbal autopsy in cause of death assignment: symptom question unreliability but predictive accuracy

Module

Tariff 2.0 Reliability dataseta

Tariff 2.0 full dataset

Selected Mexican hospitals

UCOD

95% CI

UCOD

95% CI

UCOD

95% CI

All diagnoses

95% CI

Adult

0.491

(0.490, 0.493)

0.505

(0.502, 0.507)

0.665

(65.9, 66.9)

0.759

(75.4, 76.3)

Child

0.474

(0.470, 0.477)

0.525

(0.521, 0.530)

0.385

(37.0, 40.0)

0.640

(61.4, 66.3)

Neonate

0.445

(0.442, 0.448)

0.451

(0.446, 0.454)

0.543

(52.2, 55.6)

0.589

(56.9, 60.5)

  1. a First Round VA’s with both question and text items