Comparison of physician-certified verbal autopsy with computer-coded verbal autopsy for cause of death assignment in hospitalized patients in low- and middle-income countries: systematic review

Table 2 Median chance-corrected concordance (%) by age, for all causes of death, for physician-certified verbal autopsy, InterVA-3, Tariff, Random Forest and Simplified Symptom Pattern, among hospital-based deaths

			IHME sub-studies
	Physician-certified verbal autopsy	InterVA-3	Tariff	Random forest	Simplified symptom pattern
Adults	45	25	45	48	46
Children	48	25	39	51	52
Neonates	33	7	24	35	33
All ages	42	19	36	45	43

The IHME studies provide an uncertainty limit, but these do not seem to reflect the true underlying source of error in the estimates, and to avoid false precision, we do not show these [41]. IHME: Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation.

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