Generating cause of death information to inform health policy: implementation of an automated verbal autopsy system in the Solomon Islands

Table 5 Leading causes of death diagnosed by VA (ages 12+) compared with medically certified cause of death data (ages 15+), Solomon Islands, 2016–20^a

	VA (N = 914)		MCCOD (N = 1408)
	Cause	%	Cause	%
1	Ischemic heart disease	17.6	Other NCDs^b	14.1
2	Stroke	15.7	Other infectious^c	13.1
3	Diabetes	8.9	Ischemic heart disease	11.4
4	Pneumonia	6,5	Diabetes	11.2
5	Chronic respiratory disease	5.6	Stroke	8.7
6	Other NCDs^b	4,3	Other cancers	6.5
7	Other injuries^d	3.5	Other cardiovascular disorders	6.5
8	Cirrhosis	3.4	Leukemia/lymphoma	3.6
9	Malaria	3.3	Diarrhea/ dysentery	3.1
10	Falls	3.1	Chronic respiratory disease	2.7

^aThe related ICD codes are shown in supplementary Table 3
^bNCDs which are not included within another specific cause-category of the SmartVA cause list
^cInfectious conditions which are not included within another specific cause-category of the SmartVA cause list
^dInjuries which are not included within another specific cause-category of the SmartVA cause list

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