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Table 4 Philippines cause-specific mortality fraction (CSMF) comparison

From: On the estimation of population cause-specific mortality fractions from in-hospital deaths

Cause

CSMF

Hospital†

Deaths per hospital death model

Deaths per hospital death without covariates model

Community††

GBD‡

Cancer

Estimate 95% CI

3.9 (3.2,4.7)

6.9 (4.8,10)

6.1 (4.6,8.1)

11.5 (10.5,12.5)

12.7 (12.5–12.9)

Diabetes

Estimate 95% CI

3.8 (3.1,4.6)

4.7 (2.8,8)

4.8 (3.4,6.8)

5.5 (4.8,6.2)

4.3 (4.0,4.6)

Infections—acute

Estimate 95% CI

18 (16.5,19.5)

14.7 (11.6,18.6)

15.5 (12.9,18.8)

9.4 (8.5,10.2)

11.1 (10.8,11.3)

Infections—chronic

Estimate 95% CI

3.3 (2.6,4)

11.2 (4.7,26.8)

6.9 (4.6,10.2)

6.8 (6,7.5)

5.5 (5.2,5.9)

Injuries

Estimate 95% CI

11.8 (10.5,13.1)

8.9 (7.1,11.2)

9.8 (8.1,11.8)

10.6 (9.6,11.5)

7.7 (7.4,7.9)

Maternal

Estimate 95% CI

1.3 (0.9,1.8)

0.5 (0,0)

0.5 (0.3,0.8)

0.8 (0.5,1.1)

0.3 (0.3,0.3)

Stroke

Estimate 95% CI

20.7 (19.1,22.3)

19.1 (15.8,23.1)

18 (15.6,20.9)

17.8 (16.6,18.9)

11.9 (11.1,12.7)

Other NCDs

Estimate 95% CI

37.1 (35.2,39)

33.9 (29.2,39.3)

38.3 (34.2,42.9)

37.8 (36.3,39.2)

46.5 (45.9,47.1)

  1. Abbreviations: CI confidence interval, NCD non-communicable diseases
  2. † (cause assigned by medical record review), †† (cause assigned by Tariff 2.0), ‡ (2016 Global Burden of Disease Philippines national estimate)