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Table 2 Demographic characteristics; autopsy reports by country, manner of death, age and gender

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

Autopsies by manner of death

Total

Aged 18–50

Aged 51–70

Aged ≥71

Pearson Chi-Squared (χ 2)

Norwegian dataset (Nor)

Number of cases (n)

600

283 (47 %)

197 (33 %)

120 (20 %)

 

 Autopsies

325 (54 %)

208 (74 %)

87 (44 %)

30 (25 %)

<0.001

 Male gender (%)

432 (72 %)

   

0.234

 Natural deaths (F10–39, F60–69)

32 (16 %)

11 (34 %)

19 (18 %)

2 (3 %)

<0.001

 Suicides (X60–84, Y870)

136 (68 %)

84 (71 %)

39 (67 %)

13 (54 %)

0.262

 Accidents (V43–45.5, V47–48.5, V49.4, X40–49, W65–74, X00–09)

157 (79 %)

113 (85 %)

29 (83 %)

15 (47 %)

<0.001

Swedish dataset (Swe)

Number of cases (n)

600

227 (38 %)

239 (40 %)

134 (22 %)

 

 Autopsies

483 (81 %)

214 (94 %)

208 (87 %)

61 (46 %)

<0.001

 Male gender (%)

403 (67 %)

   

0.096

 Natural deaths (F10–39, F60–69)

108 (54 %)

25 (86 %)

77 (76 %)

6 (9 %)

<0.001

Suicides (X60–84, Y870)

192 (96 %)

91 (97 %)

76 (96 %)

25 (93 %)

0.611

 Accidents (V43–45.5, V47–48.5, V49.4, X40–49, W65–74, X00–09)

124 (89 %)

65 (92 %)

36 (92 %)

23 (77 %)

0.069

 Undetermined deaths (Y10–34, Y872)

59 (98 %)

33 (100 %)

19 (95 %)

7 (100 %)

0.362

Danish dataset (Dan)

Number of cases (n)

599

232 (39 %)

183 (30 %)

184 (31 %)

 

 Autopsies

190 (32 %)

124 (53 %)

50 (27 %)

16 (9 %)

<0.001

 Male gender (%)

388 (65 %)

   

0.879

 Natural deaths (F10–39, F60–69, R96–99)

15 (8 %)

7 (37 %)

7 (10 %)

1 (1 %)

<0.001

 Suicides (X60–84, Y870)

36 (18 %)

22 (25 %)

14 (20 %)

0

0.003

 Accidents (V01–99, X40–49, W65–74, X00–09)

139 (70 %)

96 (77 %)

29 (66 %)

15 (48 %)

0.007

 

Nor, n (%)

Swe, n (%)

Dan, n (%)

Pearson Chi-Squared (χ 2)

Car occupant injured in transport accidents (V43–V45.5, V47–V48.5, V49.4)

17 (59 %)

32 (94 %)

4 (29 %)

<0.001

Transport accidents (V01–V99)

  

12 (27 %)

 

Accidental poisonings (X40–49)

112 (87 %)

62 (89 %)

99 (95 %)

0.093

Accidental drownings (W65–74)

9 (56 %)

16 (76 %)

9 (43 %)

0.088

Accidental exposure to smoke, fire and flames (X00–09)

19 (73 %)

14 (93 %)

19 (66 %)

0.149

Event of undetermined intent (Y10–34, Y872)

 

59 (98 %)

  
  1. Cases in which an autopsy was performed according to country, manner of death, age and gender. The lowermost part of the table presents transport, poisoning, drowning and fire accidents, in addition to cases in which the manner of death was undetermined. Percentages are given in parentheses. To analyse differences in the number of autopsies between age groups and countries, chi-squared tests were used
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