Accidents and undetermined deaths: re-evaluation of nationwide samples from the Scandinavian countries

BMC Public Health

Table 1 Overview of the cases extracted from the cause of death registers in Scandinavia

Manner and cause of death (ICD-10 codes)	Norway	Sweden	Denmark
Manner and cause of death (ICD-10 codes)	n	n	n
Suicides (X60–84, Y87.0)	200	200	200
Accidents	200	200	199
Traffic accidents (V01–99)^a	29	34	45
Accidental poisoning (X40–49)	129	70	104
Accidental drowning (W65–74)	16	21	21
Accidental fire and flame (X00–09)	26	15	29^b
Undetermined intent (Y10–34, Y87.2)	0	60	0
Natural deaths	200	200	200
Mental and behavioural disorders due to psychoactive substance use (F10–19)	155	149	59
Schizophrenia, schizotypal and delusional disorders (F20–29)	19	14	31
Mood (affective) disorders (F30–39)	24	37	51
Disorders of adult personality and behaviour (F60–69)	2	0	0
Ill-defined and unknown causes of mortality (R96–99)	0	0	59
Total number of cases	600	600	599

^aThe Norwegian and Swedish datasets included a selection of traffic accidents (ICD-10: V43–45.5, V47–48.5, V49.4), while the Danish dataset included all traffic accidents (ICD-10: V01–99 (V01–99). In the Danish dataset, 14 cases were within the same selection of traffic accidents as in the Norwegian and Swedish datasets (i.e., V43–45.5, V47–48.5, V49.4)
^bOne male was excluded because of age under 18 years

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