Table 2 Distribution of clinical diagnoses
From: Diagnostic errors in the new millennium: a follow-up autopsy study
Disorder | 1972 | 1982 | 1992 | 2002 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Infectious diseases | 0 | 4 | 14 | 10 |
Neoplastic diseases | 33 | 29 | 23 | 36 |
Cardiovascular diseases | 33 | 45 | 30 | 36 |
Pulmonary diseases | 4 | 2 | 7 | 4 |
Gastrointestinal diseases | 5 | 7 | 12 | 9 |
Renal diseases | 9 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Miscellaneous | 16 | 12 | 13 | 4 |
Total | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 |
