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Table 2 Top 10 Causes of deaths among the brought-in-dead adult cases in the University Teaching Hospital during research period by SmartVA and Death Notification Form

From: Analysis of causes of death among brought-in-dead cases in a third-level Hospital in Lusaka, Republic of Zambia, using the tariff method 2.0 for verbal autopsy: a cross-sectional study

SmartVA (N = 1366)

Death Notification Form (N = 1366)

Rank

Cause of Death

No

%

Rank

Cause of Death

No

%

 

Undetermined

344

25.2%

 

Undetermined

526

38.5%

1

HIV/AIDS

278

20.4%

1

TB

239

17.5%

2

Stroke

134

9.8%

2

Other CVDs

148

10.8%

3

TB

87

6.4%

3

Malaria

75

5.5%

4

Suicide

68

5.0%

4

Stroke

59

4.3%

5

DM

67

4.9%

5

Other Cancers

45

3.3%

6

Other CVDs

57

4.2%

6

Suicide

33

2.4%

7

Pneumonia

52

3.8%

7

Diarrhea/Dysentery

31

2.3%

8

Epilepsy

38

2.8%

8

Other NCDs

28

2.0%

9

IHD/AMI

26

1.9%

9

DM

25

1.8%

10

Asthma

25

1.8%

10

RTA

25

1.8%

  1. NB: TB tuberculosis, DM diabetes mellitus, CVDs cardiovascular diseases, AMI acute myocardial infarction, IHD ischemic heart disease, NCDs non-communicable diseases, RTA road traffic accident