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. 2013 Sep 13;6:10.3402/gha.v6i0.21518. doi: 10.3402/gha.v6i0.21518

Table 3.

Main characteristics of reviewed VA validation studies (n=26)

Number of validation studies Measures of validity Validated against hospital CoD data

Sensitivity Specificity PPV NPV CSF Concordance between VA CSMF and CSMF from validation data ROC curve Kappa statistics Cause-specific and average chance-corrected concordance CSMF accuracy Cause-specific concordance correlation coefficients of estimated CSMFs compared to true CSMFs
WHO VA instrument (n=6) 6/6 6/6 2/6 2/6 1/6 1/6 1/6 0/6 0/6 0/6 0/6 6/6
Adapted WHO VA instrument (n=10) 3/10 2/10 2/10 1/10 0/10 2/10 0/10 2/10 5/10 6/10 6/10 9/10
INDEPTH VA instrument (n=3) 0/3 0/3 0/3 0/3 0/3 2/3 0/3 2/3 0/3 0/3 0/3 0/3
Adapted INDEPTH VA instrument (n=1) 1/1 1/1 1/1 0/1 0/1 1/1 1/1 1/1 0/1 0/1 0/1 0/1
SAVVY instrument (n=1) 1/1 1/1 1/1 1/1 0/1 1/1 1/1 1/1 0/1 0/1 0/1 1/1
Adapted SAVVY instrument (n=1) 0/1 1/1 1/1 0/1 0/1 0/1 0/1 0/1 0/1 0/1 0/1 0/1
LSHTM VA instrument (n=4) 3/4 3/4 1/4 0/4 0/4 3/4 0/4 1/4 0/4 0/4 0/4 4/4
Total (n=26) 14/26 14/26 8/26 4/26 1/26 10/26 3/26 7/26 5/26 6/26 6/26 20/26