Verbal autopsy of 48 000 adult deaths attributable to medical causes in Chennai (formerly Madras), India

BMC Public Health

Table 4 Deaths (male and female) at ages 25–69 not in hospital: comparison between cause of death on death certificate and verbal autopsy in Chennai, India in 1995–97

Verbal autopsy only	Cause of death on death certificate
Causes	Vasc	Resp	Neop	Infect	Unsp	Other Sp	Total
1. Vascular disease (Vasc)	4670	183	18	11	2593	94	7569
2. Respiratory diseases including pulmonary TB (Resp)	290	1438	13	16	971	46	2774
3. Neoplasm (Neop)	297	74	1182	24	670	41	2288
4. Infection (except Resp) (Infect)	103	38	2	217	399	49	808
5. Unspecified medical (unsp)	88	25	20	3	1596	15	1747
6.Other specific medical illness(Other Sp.)	372	53	12	194	1114	856	2601
Total	5820	1811	1247	465	7343	1101	17787

ICD9 Codes: Vasc- 390–415, 418–459; Resp – 011, 012, 018, 416, 417, 460–519; Neop- 140–239, Infect – 1–139, HIV, 320–326, 590, 680–686; Unsp – 780–789, 797–799; Other sp – rest of medical causes

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