Table 1 Causes of death identified at the complete diagnostic autopsy (gold standard) in the different groups of patients in the early autopsy group (performed within 24 hours of death) and the late autopsy group (performed more than 24 hours after death).
From: Postmortem Interval and Diagnostic Performance of the Autopsy Methods
Time from death to autopsy procedures | p-value* | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
Early autopsies (n = 214) | Late autopsies (n = 68) | Total (n = 282) | ||
Stillbirths | 0.1787 | |||
Infectious diseases | 1 (8%) | 3 (50%) | 4 (22%) | |
Non-infectious diseases | 9 (75%) | 3 (50%) | 12 (67%) | |
Non-conclusive | 2 (17%) | 0 (0%) | 2 (11%) | |
Total | 12 (100%) | 6 (100%) | 18 (100%) | |
Neonates | 0.1650 | |||
Infectious diseases | 17 (59%) | 10 (83%) | 27 (66%) | |
Non-infectious diseases | 12 (41%) | 2 (17%) | 14 (34%) | |
Non-conclusive | 0 (0%) | 0 (0%) | 0 (0%) | |
Total | 29 (100%) | 12 (100%) | 41 (100%) | |
Children | 0.3291 | |||
Infectious diseases | 24 (73%) | 18 (86%) | 42 (78%) | |
Non-infectious diseases | 9 (27%) | 3 (14%) | 12 (22%) | |
Non-conclusive | 0 (0%) | 0 (0%) | 0 (0%) | |
Total | 33 (100%) | 21 (100%) | 54 (100%) | |
Maternal deaths | 0.4466 | |||
Infectious diseases | 18 (49%) | 8 (40%) | 26 (45%) | |
Non-infectious diseases | 19 (51%) | 11 (55%) | 30 (53%) | |
Non-conclusive | 0 (0%) | 1 (5%) | 1 (2%) | |
Total | 37 (100%) | 20 (100%) | 57 (100%) | |
Other adults | 0.7132 | |||
Infectious diseases | 74 (72%) | 6 (67%) | 80 (71%) | |
Other Non-infectious diseases | 29 (28%) | 3 (33%) | 32 (29%) | |
Non-conclusive | 0 (0%) | 0 (0%) | 0 (0%) | |
Total | 103 (100%) | 9 (100%) | 112 (100%) | |
