Causes of death

21   Sources for coding underlying cause of death. Percent. 2001 1
Underlying cause of death Deaths total Total No document No death certificate Only death certi-ficate Deaths with other docu-ments attached Result from autopsy Information from the Cancer Registry Documents from the Medical Birth Registry Returned form for supplementary inform- ation Other docu-ments
Deaths total (A00-Y89) 43 977 100 1.3 0.3 65.0 33.5 8.3 23.2 0.3 1.2 0.7
                       
Infectious and parasitic diseases(A00-B99)  521 100 0.2 0.4 86.4 13.1 9.8 0.0 0.0 3.6 0.0
Neoplasms (C00-D48) 10 808 100 0.2 0.3 0.3 99.1 5.2 94.3 0.0 0.0 0.0
Diseases of the blood and bloodforming organs and certain disorders involving the immune mechanism (D50-D89)  129 100 0.0 0.8 84.5 14.7 11.6 0.0 1.6 2.3 0.0
Endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases (E00-E90)  942 100 0.1 0.2 86.4 13.3 7.5 0.0 0.3 5.2 0.4
Mental and behavioural disorders (F00-F99) 1 340 100 0.1 0.6 69.1 30.2 28.1 0.0 0.0 2.0 0.7
Diseases of the nervous system and the sense organs (G00-H95) 1 159 100 0.1 0.1 89.8 10.0 7.2 0.0 0.2 2.2 0.6
Diseases of the circulatory system (I00-I99) 17 868 100 0.3 0.1 91.7 7.9 6.6 0.0 0.0 1.0 0.3
Diseases of the respiratory system (J00-J99) 4 332 100 0.3 0.2 94.2 5.4 3.9 0.0 0.0 1.1 0.5
Diseases of the digestive system (K00-K93) 1 370 100 0.4 0.1 83.6 15.9 12.6 0.0 0.0 3.2 0.1
Diseases of the skin and subcutaneous tissue (L00-L99) 80 100 0.0 0.0 97.5 2.5 1.3 0.0 0.0 1.3 0.0
Diseases of musculoskeletal system/connective tissue (M00-M99)  254 100 0.4 0.0 84.6 15.0 11.8 0.0 0.0 2.8 0.4
Diseases of genitourinary system (N00-N99)  675 100 0.7 0.0 93.9 5.3 3.7 0.0 0.0 0.7 0.9
Complicatons of pregnancy, childbirth and puerperium (O00-O99) 3 100 0.0 0.0 33.3 66.7 33.3 0.0 0.0 33.3 0.0
Certain conditions originating in the perinatal period (P00-P96)  108 100 0.0 3.7 3.7 92.6 12.0 0.0 84.3 0.0 0.0
Congenital malformations and chromosomal abnormalities (Q00-Q99)  157 100 0.0 0.6 35.7 63.7 31.2 0.0 33.1 0.0 0.0
Symptoms, signs, abnormal findings, ill-defined causes (R00-R99) 1 942 100 22.9 0.5 66.3 10.2 2.0 0.0 0.1 4.3 4.4
Violent deaths, total (V01-Y89) 2 289 100 0.0 1.5 57.9 40.6 36.0 0.0 0.0 1.7 4.4
1  The 5 last columns of the table show the percentage of deaths having documents with supplementary information attached. For some of the deaths several supplementary documents are attached. This is, however, not evident in the table, as only the more highly ranked supplementary document is included for each death. The supplementary documents are ranked from left to right in the table, i.e. in the sequence Result from autopsy, Information from the Cancer Registry, Documents from the Medical Birth Registry, Returned form for supplementary information, and other.

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