Verbal Autopsy:Reimagining data and automated cause assignment (using ALPHA network data)

South Africa, 2000 - 2020

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AHRI.NIH.Verbal.Autopsy.Dataset.v1

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Sam Clark, Clara Calvert, Milly Marston, Yue Chu

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Documentation in PDF DDI/XML JSON

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Jun 08, 2022

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Jun 08, 2022

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Discharge diagnosis 1 type (DDxType1)

Data file: HIS01-01 HospitalDeaths

Overview

Valid: 5748

Invalid: 5

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Width: 12

Range: 1 - 9

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Immediate Cause	5626	97.9%
2	Underlying Cause	29	0.5%
3	Associated Cause	9	0.2%
9	Symptom/Sign	84	1.5%
Sysmiss		5

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.

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