Table 2.

Distribution of death rates per specialty.

Specialty	Deaths, n	% of deaths	Discharged patients, (All years)
General medicine	2775	47,5	25975
Cardiology	1148	19,7	17697
General surgery	496	8,5	16413
Neurosurgery	384	6,6	8759
Chest physicians	218	3,7	4318
Nephrology	192	3,3	3494
Orthopedics	153	2,6	7368
Intensive care unit	120	2,1	514
Neurology	87	1,5	4438
Neonatology	80	1,4	1507
Urology	64	1,1	10141
Thoracic surgery	55	0,9	1841
Remaining specialties	51	0,9	47431
Unknown	13	0,2
Total	5,836	100	149,896