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Table 3 CSMFs by place of death at ages 5 to 69 years

From: Performance criteria for verbal autopsy-based systems to estimate national causes of death: development and application to the Indian Million Death Study

 

Home

Hospital

Rank order

OR: hospital versus homea(95% CI)

Disease

Number

%

Number

%

Home

Hospital

Communicable

        

Malaria

1,618

3.7

326

3.0

11

15

1.0

(0.9 to 1.1)

Tuberculosis

4,741

10.8

636

5.9

3

6

0.6

(0.5 to 0.6)

HIV/STI

359

0.8

50

0.5

17

18

0.3

(0.2 to 0.4)

Other infectious diseasesb

6,430

14.6

1,153

10.7

1

2

0.8

(0.8 to 0.9)

Maternal conditions

522

1.2

343

3.2

16

14

3.4

(2.9 to 4.0)

Nutritional conditions

322

0.7

44

0.4

18

19

0.7

(0.5 to 0.9)

Non communicable

        

Cancer

4,183

9.5

984

9.1

5

3

0.8

(0.8 to 0.9)

Ischemic heart disease

4,964

11.3

1,590

14.8

2

1

1.2

(1.1 to 1.3)

Stroke (cerebrovascular disease)

3,290

7.5

906

8.4

6

4

1.3

(1.2 to 1.4)

Other CVDc

1,116

2.5

371

3.4

13

12

1.3

(1.1 to 1.4)

Chronic respiratory disease

4,646

10.6

515

4.8

4

9

0.7

(0.6 to 0.7)

Liver cirrhosis

1,707

3.9

545

5.1

10

8

1.0

(0.9 to 1.1)

Other digestive diseases

1,025

2.3

282

2.6

14

17

1.3

(1.2 to 1.5)

Renal and other endocrine diseases

848

1.9

285

2.6

15

16

1.2

(1.1 to 1.4)

Other chronic diseases

2,156

4.9

569

5.3

8

7

0.9

(0.8 to 1.0)

Injuries

        

Road traffic accidents

230

0.5

484

4.5

19

11

6.9

(5.8 to 8.1)

Suicides

1,467

3.3

506

4.7

12

10

0.9

(0.8 to 1.0)

Other injuries

1,779

4.0

820

7.6

9

5

1.8

(1.6 to 2.0)

Ill-defined

2,576

5.9

370

3.4

7

13

0.6

(0.5 to 0.7)

Total

43,979

100

10,779

100

    
  1. aAdjusted for age, sex, religion (Hindu versus not), education (illiterate versus not), state (poorer nine states versus remaining states), rural/urban; brespiratory infections, diarrheal diseases, vaccine-preventable diseases, meningitis, encephalitis, tropical diseases, acute bacterial sepsis and severe infections, and other infectious and parasitic diseases; crheumatic and hypertensive heart disease, heart failure, and other cardiovascular diseases. Note that most road traffic injury deaths were classified as ‘other’, meaning death did not happen at home or hospital, but at scene of accident or en route elsewhere. CI, confidence interval; CSMFs, cause specific mortality fractions; CVD, cardiovascular disease; MDS, Million Death Study; OR, odds ratio; STI, sexually-transmitted infections.