Information box: Proportions of coder agreement on final cause of death in 979 infant verbal autopsies in the NEWHINTS Study in Central Ghana 2008–2009

Figure 2 shows the final cause of death code (CoD) for 55% of the VA questionnaires were based on the agreement of two physicians). 28% of the questionnaires required a third physician coder to to determine a final CoD, and 17% of the VAs had to be coded by consensus of all three physicians or a 4th coder as described in Fig. 1 above. It is therefore essential to bear this in mind during planning and budgeting for a coding activity