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. 2014 Jan 9;12:5. doi: 10.1186/1741-7015-12-5

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Sensitivity (%) for 5 methods for 21 child causes. Figure 7 shows the median sensitivity for each method (except King-Lu which does not provide individual cause of death assignments) for 21 child causes. Cells are shaded from red (low sensitivity) to green (high sensitivity) to help identify the relative differences between sensitivities across methods and causes. GBD, Global Burden of Disease; HCE, health care experience; PCVA, physician-certified VA; RF, Random Forest; SSP, Simplified Symptom Pattern; VA, verbal autopsy.