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Table 5 Bangladesh 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

3.4 (2.5,4.2)

5.3 (3.6,7.9)

5.5 (3.5,8.7)

9.9 (8.9,10.9)

11.9 (11.6,12.2)

Diabetes

Estimate 95% CI

2.8 (2,3.6)

2.6 (1.7,4.1)

3.3 (2,5.3)

6.2 (5.5,7)

4.2 (3.9,4.6)

Infections—acute

Estimate 95% CI

9 (7.6,10.4)

10.4 (5.8,18.6)

10.4 (7.2,15.2)

8.1 (7.3,9.0)

8.6 (8.2,8.9)

Infections—chronic

Estimate 95% CI

2.1 (1.4,2.8)

2.1 (0.9,4.5)

2.6 (1.1,6.0)

1.7 (1.3,2.1)

2.6 (2.3,2.8)

Injuries

Estimate 95% CI

9.4 (7.9,10.8)

11.1 (4.7,26.1)

6 (4.4,8.1)

7.1 (6.3,8)

8.3 (8.0,8.6)

Maternal

Estimate 95% CI

3.9 (3,4.9)

1.4 (1.4,1.4)

1.3 (0.7,2.2)

0.8 (0.5,1.0)

0.6 (0.6,0.7)

Stroke

Estimate 95% CI

19.8 (17.8,21.7)

21.1 (17.0,26.1)

23.8 (19.4,29.3)

31.5 (30.0,32.9)

17 (16.1,17.9)

Other NCDs

Estimate 95% CI

49.7 (47.2,52.1)

46.1 (39,54.6)

47.1 (40.1,55.4)

34.7 (33.1,36.2)

46.8 (46.1,47.5)

  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 Bangladesh national estimate)