Categories of discrepancy and discrepancy rates of the most common discrepant diagnoses
| Diagnosis | Category of discrepancy | Total DD | DR (%) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| I | II | III | IV | VI | |||
| *Eight of 24 patients had a necropsy (or clinical and necropsy) diagnosis of congestive cardiac failure; †12 of 21 patients had a necropsy (or clinical and necropsy) diagnosis of pulmonary congestion and oedema, or congestive cardiac failure; ‡6 of 15 patients had a necropsy (or clinical and necropsy) diagnosis of congestive cardiac failure; §4 of 7 adult patients had necropsy (or clinical and necropsy) changes of congestive cardiac failure. | |||||||
| DD, discrepant diagnoses; DR, discrepancy rate. | |||||||
| Pulmonary thromboembolism | 18 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 24* | 43 | 68.3 |
| Pneumonia | 4 | 3 | 8 | 0 | 21† | 36 | 73.5 |
| Congestive cardiac failure | 11 | 6 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 25 | 50.0 |
| Myocardial infarction | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 15‡ | 22 | 66.7 |
| Sepsis | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12§ | 15 | 44.1 |
| Cerebrovascular accident | 1 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 13 | 65.0 |
| Meningitis | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 63.6 |
| Primary brain tumours | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 55.6 |
| Infective endocarditis | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 50.0 |
| Subarachnoid haemorrhage | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 33.3 |
| Total N (%) 174 (100) | 53 (30.4) | 17 (9.8) | 16 (9.2) | 1 (0.6) | 87 (50.0) | ||