Table 2.
Causes of neonatal deaths by age (weighted)
| Physician Coded Verbal Autopsy | Expert Algorithm Verbal Autopsy | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Causes of deaths (%) | Causes of deaths (%) | |||||||||
| Age Group | Intrapartum injury (95% CI) | Preterm (95% CI) | Severe infection (95% CI) | Other (95% CI) | P-value | Intrapartum injury (95% CI) | Preterm (95% CI) | Severe infection (95% CI) | Others (95% CI) | P-value |
| 0 days | 40.5 (34.7 – 46.9) | 11.3 (7.9 – 15.8) | 18.8 (14.4 – 24.1) | 29.3 (24.0 – 35.3) | 50.4 (44.1 – 56.5) | 0.8 (0.3 – 3.3) | 28.2 (22.8 – 34.0) | 20.6 (16.1- 26.2) | ||
| 1 day | 26.1 (19.1 – 35.1) | 8.7 (4.7 – 15.4) | 48.7 (39.2 – 57.4) | 16.5(11.0 – 24.8) | 34.5 (26.2 – 43.4) | 0.5 (0.0 – 6.3) | 40.5 (32.3 – 50.1) | 24.1 (17.3 – 33.0) | ||
| 2–6 days | 7.7 (4.8 – 12.2) | 3.8 (2.0 – 7.7) | 62.5 (55.6 – 68.8) | 26.0 (20.3 – 32.3) | 18.3 (13.6 – 24.1) | 1.4 (0.5 – 4.5) | 52.9 (46.1 –59.7) | 27.4 (21.6 – 33.7) | ||
| 7–27 days | 3.9 (1.8 – 8.0) | 4.0 (2.0 – 8.4) | 59.0 (51.5 – 66.1) | 32.9 (26.4 – 40.4) | < 0.0001 | 6.3 (3.5 – 11.0) | 1.2 (0.2 – 4.4) | 58.4 (51.0 – 65.6) | 34.1 (27.5 – 41.6) | < 0.0001 |
| 1–59 months | Diarrhoea (95% CI) | Pneumonia (95% CI) | Malaria (95% CI) | Other (95% CI) | Diarrheal (95% CI) | Pneumonia (95% CI) | Malaria (95% CI) | Other (95% CI) | ||
| 1–11 months | 21.5 (18.4 – 24.9) | 12.6 (10.2 – 15.5) | 20.2 (17.3 – 23.6) | 45.6 (41.8 – 49.6) | 23.5 (20.3 – 27.0) | 15.1 (12.5 – 18.1) | 31.7 (28.1 – 35.4) | 29.8 (26.3 – 33.5) | ||
| 1–5 years | 21.4 (19.4 – 23.5) | 8.7 (7.4 – 10.2) | 23.8 (21.7 – 26.0) | 46.2 (43.7 – 48.7) | 0.027 | 28.8 (26.6 – 31.2) | 11.1 (9.6 – 12.8) | 37.0 (34.6 – 39.4) | 23.1 (21.1 – 25.3) | 0.002 |
CI Confidence Interval; “Other” for neonatal deaths: include cases suggestive of haemorrhagic disease, skin infections and sudden deaths, and jaundice. “Other” for age 1–59 months include: severe anaemia (without a specific cause), sickle cell anaemia, haemorrhagic fever, skin infections and sudden death