Table 1.
Comparison of physician consensus (PC) and community coordinator (CC) for underlying neonatal cause of death (COD)
| CC for underlying cause of death | PC for underlying cause of death | CC total |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Preterm/ Low birth weight |
Asphyxia | Fetal Trauma | Tetanus | Unknown/ no cause |
Other1 | |||
| Preterm/low birth weight | 14 | 11 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 31 |
| Infection | 1 | 19 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 23 |
| Asphyxia | 4 | 5 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 22 |
| Fetal trauma | 0 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 |
| Tetanus | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 6 |
| Unknown/no cause | 0 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 12 |
| Other1 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 17 |
| PC total | 20 | 52 | 31 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 118 |
1Other includes congenital malformation, birth trauma, and neonatal accident,
Percent concordant = (55/118) × 100 = 46.6%. (This includes COD coded as Other.)