Table 1 Place of death, health care seeking and circumstances of deaths analyzed with verbal autopsies (% in columns) (n=1188), Dakar pilot study, 2019

Place of death

Hospital

74.6

51.8

44.8

31.2

43.4

Other health care facility

13.4

4.8

7.8

3.7

6.6

On the way to a health care facility

0.7

4.8

6.2

2.4

4.0

Home

10.4

34.9

39.2

61.1

44.1

Other (public road, etc.)

0.7

3.6

1.9

1.5

1.8

Doubts about the need for medical care in the final days

Yes

11.9

21.7

22.2

19.4

19.9

No

84.3

78.3

76.4

79.3

78.5

Don’t know

3.7

0.0

1.4

1.3

1.5

Visit to a health facility in the final days

Yes

73.9

57.8

63.2

48.9

58.5

No

25.4

41.0

35.5

50.0

40.3

Don’t know

0.7

1.2

1.4

1.1

1.2

Circumstances Of Mortality CATegories (COMCATs)

Traditions

0.7

7.2

7.2

5.5

5.8

Emergency

40.3

25.3

14.0

4.4

14.1

Health systems

21.6

12.0

9.2

4.1

8.8

Inevitable

28.4

2.4

28.1

56.1

37.1

Recognition

0.7

33.7

25.1

19.2

20.7

Resources

4.5

16.9

13.6

7.9

10.6

Multiple

3.7

2.4

2.7

2.8

2.9

Number of deaths

134

83

513

458

1, 188