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Table 5 Ranking of 20 leading causes of deaths for females in health facilities before (top) and after (bottom) MCCD interventions in the Iringa Region

From: Improving quality of medical certification of causes of death in health facilities in Tanzania 2014–2019

Rank

CSMF (%)

ICD code

Severity

Cause

1

11.9

B24

 

Unspecified human immunodeficiency virus [HIV] disease

2

7.8

R99

H

Other ill-defined and unspecified causes of mortality

3

6.8

J18

L

Pneumonia, organism unspecified

4

6.5

I10

H

Essential (primary) hypertension

5

3.9

I42

L

Cardiomyopathy

6

3.5

A41

H

Other septicaemia

7

3.3

P95

 

Fetal death of unspecified cause

8

3.0

I50

H

Heart failure

9

2.9

A09

 

Diarrhoea and gastroenteritis of presumed infectious origin

10

2.9

Z21

H

Asymptomatic human immunodeficiency virus [HIV] infection status

11

2.3

B45

 

Cryptococcosis

12

2.3

P21

 

Birth asphyxia

13

2.2

P15

 

Other birth injuries

14

2.0

T71

H

Asphyxiation

15

1.8

P05

 

Slow fetal growth and fetal malnutrition

16

1.7

A15

 

Respiratory tuberculosis, bacteriologically & histologically confirmed

17

1.7

R50

H

Fever of unknown origin

18

1.6

E14

L

Unspecified diabetes mellitus

19

1.6

I64

L

Stroke, not specified as haemorrhage or infarction

20

1.3

B53

 

Other parasitologically confirmed malaria

Rank

CSMF (%)

ICD code

Severity

Cause

1

11.4

B22

 

Human immunodeficiency virus disease resulting in other specified diseases

2

6.0

J18

L

Pneumonia, organism unspecified

3

4.5

I50

H

Heart failure

4

4.0

B24

 

Unspecified human immunodeficiency virus [HIV] disease

5

4.0

P21

 

Birth asphyxia

6

3.4

I11

 

Hypertensive heart disease

7

3.1

B20

 

Human immunodeficiency virus [HIV] disease resulting in infectious diseases

8

2.7

B45

 

Cryptococcosis

9

2.7

D64

H

Other anaemias

10

2.3

R99

H

Other ill-defined and unspecified causes of mortality

11

2.2

I10

H

Essential (primary) hypertension

12

2.0

P95

 

Fetal death of unspecified cause

13

1.8

A41

H

Other septicaemia

14

1.8

P02

 

Fetus and newborn affected by complications of placenta, cord, membranes

15

1.6

P36

 

Bacterial sepsis of newborn

16

1.4

B59

 

Pneumocystosis

17

1.4

E46

 

Unspecified protein-energy malnutrition

18

1.4

P22

 

Respiratory distress of newborn

19

1.4

R57

H

Shock, not elsewhere classified

20

1.3

A18

 

Tuberculosis of other organs

  1. H = Unusable codes with very high, high, or medium impact
  2. L = Usable but insufficiently specified codes with low policy impact