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The calculated sensitivities and specificities for physician identified causes of death must be interpreted with the understanding that the final RHIME cause of death is not independent from the cause of death assigned by the physicians at the earlier stages.
They then independently reviewed the short answer responses and narratives, and the cause of death assigned by the MDS physicians and used the M-DET to extract information on the four areas described above.
In our study, 50% of patients who died from other/unknown causes had no cause of death assigned.
The causes of death assigned by each physician are then compared and those cases that are in agreement are recorded as the final causes of death.
If the cause of death assigned by the third physician did not match with either of the two; the three physicians sat for panel and assigned the cause of death.
Two other studies have used VA data, one in Kenya and the other one in Ethiopia, comparing the InterVA assessment with the causes of death assigned by physicians (30, 31).
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Deaths assigned to any cause were considered in this analysis.
Underlying cause of death was abstracted from death certificates, and deaths assigned International Classification of Disease – Ninth Revision (ICD-9) codes 153.0 154.1 were identified as due to colon or rectal cancer.
This could possibly result in changes in number of deaths assigned as HIV/AIDS death due to differences in implementing ICD10 procedures among physicians.
One method estimates the contribution of a cause by recalculating the life table with no deaths assigned to that cause (often called "cause-deleted" life tables) (Newman 1987).
Deaths assigned to malaria were extracted from the overall data set together with data on person-time exposed by site, year, age and sex.
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