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Table 4 CSMF accuracy comparing the cause distributions of community and health facility deaths in the study countries

From: Using health facility deaths to estimate population causes of neonatal and child mortality in four African countries

Country

Analysis method

Neonatal cause of death distribution, estimate (95% CI)

Child cause of death distribution, estimate (95% CI)

Cameroon

EAVA

0.77 (0.61, 0.86)

0.89 (0.78, 0.91)

Cameroon

PCVA

0.80 (0.61, 0.87)

0.87 (0.77, 0.90)

Malawi

EAVA

0.76 (0.64, 0.85)

0.87 (0.79, 0.91)

Malawi

PCVA

0.87 (0.75, 0.92)

0.85 (0.76, 0.88)

Niger

EAVA

0.74 (0.59, 0.84)

0.88 (0.71, 0.90)

Niger

PCVA

0.79 (0.63, 0.88)

0.92 (0.75, 0.93)

Nigeria

EAVA

0.87 (0.76, 0.90)

0.93 (0.86, 0.95)

Nigeria

PCVA

0.81 (0.70, 0.87)

0.95 (0.87, 0.95)

  1. CSMF cause-specific mortality fraction, EAVA expert algorithm verbal autopsy, PCVA physician-coded verbal autopsy