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Table 1 Cause-specific mortality fractions for Medical Assistants and Tariff for Adults (n = 4328)

From: Comparing tariff and medical assistant assigned causes of death from verbal autopsy interviews in Matlab, Bangladesh: implications for a health and demographic surveillance system

Medical Assistants

CSMF

Tariff reallocated

CSMF

Stroke

29.6

Stroke

32.0

Ischemic Heart Disease

14.2

Ischemic Heart Disease

14.0

Other Cardiovascular Diseases

8.2

Chronic Respiratory

11.0

Other NCD

7.4

Diabetes

6.0

Chronic Respiratory

6.7

Other NCD

5.0

Other Cancers

6.4

Cirrhosis

4.0

Other Infectious Diseases

3.6

Lung Cancer

3.0

Diabetes

2.3

Falls

3.0

Lung Cancer

1.6

TB

2.0

Falls

1.5

Diarrhea/Dysentery

2.0

Diarrhea/Dysentery

1.4

Road Traffic

2.0

Cirrhosis

1.4

Other Injuries

2.0

Other Injuries

1.2

Drowning

1.0

COD Outside the Top 15

10.2

Other Infectious Diseases

1.0

Undetermined

5.6

COD Outside the Top 15

12.0

  1. CSMF cause-specific mortality fraction, COD cause of death, NCD non-communicable diseases