Table 4 Causes of death misclassification in VA
VA Diagnosis * | Hospital Diagnosis “gold standard“ * | Total | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
AIDS | TB | RTI | Meningitis | Malignant | DM | CVD | RD | DD | GD | Unintentional Injury | ||
AIDS | 47 | 5 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 11 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 97 |
TB | 5 | 30 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 12 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 77 |
RTI | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 14 |
Meningitis | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 |
Malignant | 4 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 13 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 28 |
DM | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 15 |
CVD | 5 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 54 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 75 |
RD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 7 |
DD | 3 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 16 | 1 | 0 | 34 |
G D | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 12 |
Unintentional Injury | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 12 | 21 |
Total | 69 | 48 | 14 | 7 | 28 | 14 | 83 | 17 | 36 | 8 | 13 | 335 |