Table 3. Validity of verbal autopsy based assignment of any cause* of neonatal deaths compared with the cause of death assigned by the treating neonatologist based on clinical and laboratory information.

Diagnosis Category	Sensitivity		Specificity		Positive Predictive Value	Negative Predictive Value	Diagnostic Accuracy	Area under ROC	Kappa Agreement
	N	%	N	%	%	%	%	Proportion	Agreement
		(95% CI)		(95% CI)	(95% CI)	(95% CI)	(95% CI)	(95% CI)	(95% CI)
Congenital Anomaly	36	61.1	277	95.7	68.8	95.0	92.3	0.78	0.58
		(43.5–76.4)		(92.4–97.6)	(49.9–83.3)	(91.6–97.1)	(88.8–95.0)	(0.71–0.87)	(0.44–0.73)
Preterm birth	87	81.6	226	69.0	50.4	90.7	72.5	0.75	0.43
		(71.6–88.8)		(62.5–74.9)	(41.9–58.8)	(85.1–94.4)	(67.2–77.4)	(0.70–0.80)	(0.33–0.57)
Asphyxia	85	54.1	228	89.0	64.8	83.9	79.6	0.72	0.45
		(43.0–64.9)		(84.1–92.6)	(52.5–75.5)	(78.5–88.2)	(74.6–83.9)	(0.66–0.77)	(0.34–0.57)
Severe infection (pneumonia, sepsis or meningitis)	91	78.0	222	66.2	48.6	88.0	69.6	0.72	0.37
		(67.9–85.8)		(59.5–72.3)	(40.3–57.0)	(81.9–92.4)	(64.2–74-7)	(0.67–0.77)	(0.28–0.47)