Table 4 Cross tabulation between registration and verbal autopsy diagnoses for external causes in rural China, 2002.
| VA diagnosis | Registration diagnosis | Drowning | Falls | Poisoning | Fires | Assault | Natural causes | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RTA | Suicide | Other external causes | ||||||||
| RTA | 72 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 85 | |||
| Suicide | 3 | 47 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 63 | ||
| Other external | 3 | 1 | 25 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 16 | 51 | ||
| Drowning | 42 | 2 | 44 | |||||||
| Falls | 8 | 1 | 19 | 16 | 44 | |||||
| Poisoning | 1 | 10 | 1 | 6 | 7 | 25 | ||||
| Fires | 2 | 0 | 2 | |||||||
| Assault | 1 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 13 | ||||
| Natural causes | 1 | 6 | 12 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 2121 | 2155 |
| Total | 81 | 64 | 55 | 48 | 28 | 14 | 7 | 7 | 2178 | 2482 |
RTA, road traffic accidents; VA, verbal autopsy.