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Table 3 Cause-specific mortality fractions for Medical Assistants and Tariff for Neonates (n = 345)

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

Birth asphyxia

41.2

Birth asphyxia

37

Meningitis/Sepsis

22.3

Preterm Delivery

30.9

Preterm Delivery

8.1

Pneumonia

17.1

Congenital malformation

6.7

Meningitis/Sepsis

7.5

Pneumonia

2.9

Congenital malformation

6.9

Stillbirth

0

Stillbirth

0.4

Undetermined

18.8

Undetermined

0

  1. CSMF cause-specific mortality fraction