Additional file 2: of Performance of InSilicoVA for assigning causes of death to verbal autopsies: multisite validation study using clinical diagnostic gold standards

Misclassification matrix for adult deaths when InSilicoVA is trained using Tariff 2.0 symptoms without health care experience questions. (XLSX 11 kb

Additional file 3: of Performance of InSilicoVA for assigning causes of death to verbal autopsies: multisite validation study using clinical diagnostic gold standards

Misclassification matrix for child deaths when InSilicoVA is trained using Tariff 2.0 symptoms without health care experience questions. (XLSX 7 kb

Additional file 1: of Performance of InSilicoVA for assigning causes of death to verbal autopsies: multisite validation study using clinical diagnostic gold standards

Gold standard causes. Causes from the PHMRC gold standard database and mapping to causes used by InSilicoVA by age group. (DOCX 11 kb

Additional file 4: of Performance of InSilicoVA for assigning causes of death to verbal autopsies: multisite validation study using clinical diagnostic gold standards

Misclassification matrix for neonatal deaths when InSilicoVA is trained using Tariff 2.0 symptoms without health care experience questions. (XLSX 5 kb

Additional file 5: of Performance of InSilicoVA for assigning causes of death to verbal autopsies: multisite validation study using clinical diagnostic gold standards

Cause-specific sensitivity and specificity for InSilicoVA and Tariff 2.0. (XLSX 13 kb

Additional file 1: of Measuring causes of death in populations: a new metric that corrects cause-specific mortality fractions for chance

Supplementary text 2 Python script

Additional file 2: of Measuring causes of death in populations: a new metric that corrects cause-specific mortality fractions for chance

Supplementary text 1 Asymptotic calculation. (PDF 183 kb

A Novel Method for Verifying War Mortality while Estimating Iraqi Deaths for the Iran-Iraq War through Operation Desert Storm (1980-1993)

<div><p>Objectives</p><p>We estimated war-related Iraqi mortality for the period 1980 through 1993.</p><p>Method</p><p>To test our hypothesis that deaths reported by siblings (even dating back several decades) would correspond with war events, we compared sibling mortality reports with the frequency of independent news reports about violent historic events. We used data from a survey of 4,287 adults in 2000 Iraqi households conducted in 2011. Interviewees reported on the status of their 24,759 siblings. Death rates were applied to population estimates, 1980 to 1993. News report data came from the ProQuest <i>New York Times</i> database.</p><p>Results</p><p>About half of sibling-reported deaths across the study period were attributed to direct war-related injuries. The Iran-Iraq war led to nearly 200,000 adult deaths, and the 1990–1991 First Gulf War generated another approximately 40,000 deaths. Deaths during peace intervals before and after each war were significantly lower. We found a relationship between total sibling-reported deaths and the tally of war events across the period, p = 0.02.</p><p>Conclusions</p><p>We report a novel method to verify the reliability of epidemiological (household survey) estimates of direct war-related injury mortality dating back several decades.</p></div

Raw number of siblings death by year and cause, Iraq 1979–1993.

<p><b>Source of data:</b> Survey of 4,287 adults in 1,960 households in Iraq between May and July of 2011,782 sibling deaths by cause between 1980 and 1993. Data provided by the University Collaborative Iraq Mortality Study, which collected household and sibling data from 2000 households across Iraq in 2011. Direct war-related injury deaths / total deaths = 45.3%. Among other deaths, 23.1% were attributed to cardiovascular disease, 22.2% to other injury, 10.7% to cancer, 37.0% to “other” and 7.0% to “don’t know.”</p

Sample size and counts of siblings in Iraq, by governorate.

<p>Sample size and counts of siblings in Iraq, by governorate.</p