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Table 3 Agreement in reclassification of accidents

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

Dataset

Accidents

Traffic accidents

Poisoning accidents

Drowning accidents

Accidental fire and flame

%, (range)

%, (range)

%, (range)

%, (range)

%, (range)

Norwegian

69 (13–97)

83 (57–100)

65 (6–97)

49 (0–100)

86 (25–100)

Swedish

69 (8–97)

83 (14–100)

64 (11–89)

64 (0–100)

67 (0–100)

Danish

78 (47–97)

87 (61–100)

78 (32–100)

48 (22–78)

84 (62–100)

  1. Agreement (in per cent) between the manner of death recorded in the national cause of death registers and the experts’ assessment. Ranges are given in parentheses