Table 2 Level of certainty of the MIA and the CDA diagnoses in the early (performed within 24 hours of death) and the late autopsy groups (performed more than 24 hours after death).
From: Postmortem Interval and Diagnostic Performance of the Autopsy Methods
Level of certainty of the cause of death | Time from death to the postmortem procedures | p-value | |
|---|---|---|---|
Early autopsies (n = 214) n (%) | Late autopsies (n = 68) n (%) | ||
Minimally invasive autopsy | 0.1871* | ||
Very high | 74 (35%) | 19 (28%) | |
High | 52 (24%) | 17 (25%) | |
Moderate | 36 (17%) | 20 (29%) | |
Low | 25 (12%) | 7 (10%) | |
No diagnosis | 27 (13%) | 5 (7%) | |
Complete diagnostic autopsy | 0.8169# | ||
Very high | 93 (43%) | 26 (38%) | |
High | 80 (37%) | 28 (41%) | |
Moderate | 29 (14%) | 11 (16%) | |
Low | 10 (5%) | 2 (3%) | |
No diagnosis | 2 (1%) | 1 (1%) | |
