Variable doctor_agreement : Type of Agreement of Physicians on Diagnosis
Overview
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Type:
Discrete
Format: numeric Width: 23 Decimal(s): 0 Range: 1-99 |
Valid case(s): 281
Invalid: 0 |
File: VERBAL AUTOPSY ROUND 8
Description
Type of agreement by two or more physicians on the Cause of Death of the Deceased
Universe
Deceased de jure household members (usual residents) in the geographic coverage area, in all rounds.
Source of information
Physicians (after reviewing each verbal autopsy).
Categories
| Value | Category | Cases | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1. Agreed independently | 234 |  83.3%
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| 2 | 2. Agreed after meeting | 40 | 14.2%
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| 3 | 3. Disagreed | 2 | 0.7%
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| 95 | 95. Missing Information | 5 | 1.8%
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| 96 | 96. Other | 0 | 0.0%
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| 97 | 97. Refusal | 0 | 0.0%
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| 98 | 98. Unknown | 0 | 0.0%
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| 99 | 99. Not applicable | 0 | 0.0%
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Warning: these figures indicate the number of cases found in the data file. They cannot be interpreted as summary statistics
of the population of interest.
Interviewer instructions
Get and confirm responses for A.4 to A.10 from death registration form
Derivation
This variable is derived by merging into the dataset the physicians' coding of cause of death.