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Table 3.

Validity of coronary deaths (Eurocode 34) recorded in Norwegian mortality statistics for 1,140 post mortem examinations, according to whether the autopsy results were available or not

Eurocode 34	Sensitivity [95% CI]	Positive predictive value [95% CI]	Over-diagnosed [95% CI]	Under-diagnosed [95% CI]	Kappa [95% CI]
Autopsy reported available	219/237 = 0.92	219/253 = 0.87	34/253 = 0.13	18/237 = 0.08	0.84
Autopsy reported available	[0.89, 0.96]	[0.82, 0.91]	[0.09, 0.18]	[0.04, 0.11]	[0.79,0.88]
Autopsy reported unavailable	65/87 = 0.75	65/79 = 0.82	14/79 = 0.17	23/87 = 0.25	0.73
Autopsy reported unavailable	[0.66, 0.84]	[0.74, 0.91]	[0.09, 0.26]	[0.17, 0.36]	[0.64,0.81]
Total	284/324 = 0.88	284/332 = 0.86	48/332 = 0.15	40/324 = 0.12	0.80
Total	[0.84, 0.91]	[0.82, 0.89]	[0.11, 0.18]	[0.09, 0.16]	[0.76, 0.84]

CI confidence interval