Table 4.

Distribution of patients who died at HCFMRP-USP during the period from 1990 to 1995 according to the 21 diagnostic categories of the ICD-10 based on the necropsy diagnosis of the basic cause of death obtained after MD and FD

	FD
MD	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	Total
1	255	3	0	2	2	1	0	0	3	0	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	271
2	1	486	0	1	1	1	0	0	4	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	496
3	0	1	29	0	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	32
4	1	0	0	75	5	5	0	0	5	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	94
5	7	1	0	0	235	1	0	0	4	1	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	252
6	4	3	0	0	0	75	0	0	8	2	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	94
7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
8	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	6
9	8	4	0	1	2	1	0	0	1105	8	2	0	1	4	0	0	1	0	2	0	0	1139
10	6	7	0	1	3	0	0	0	9	159	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	4	0	0	191
11	10	7	0	2	13	0	0	0	1	0	239	0	0	2	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	276
12	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	13	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	15
13	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	25	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	27
14	0	0	1	1	1	0	0	0	2	1	2	0	0	91	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	101
15	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	20	0	0	0	0	0	0	22
16	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
17	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	14	0	0	0	0	15
18	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	16	0	0	0	22
19	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	40	0	0	42
20	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1
21	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Total	294	513	30	84	263	87	0	6	1147	175	252	13	27	97	22	1	15	20	49	1	0	3096

FD, microscopic examination; HCFMRP-USP, University Hospital of the Faculty of Medicine of Ribeirão Preto, University of São Paulo; ICD, International Classification of Diseases; MD, macroscopic examination.