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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Jul 11.
Published in final edited form as: Forensic Sci Int. 2010 Jul 23;206(0):71–76. doi: 10.1016/j.forsciint.2010.06.021

Table 4.

Factors with impact* on cause of death interpretation between ME and MTAP.

Factors OR (95% CI)a
Agreement
Prehospital cardiac arrest 0.55 (0.3–0.97)
Disagreement
Fires 4.0 (1.01–16.5)
Chronic toxicity 1.9 (0.9–3.9)

CI, confidence intervals; ME, medical examiner; MTAP, medical toxicology adjudication panel; OR, odds ratio.

a

Odds for disagreement between ME and MTAP; thus factors with OR>1.0 are associated with disagreement whereas factors with OR<1.0 are associated with agreement.

*

Impact defined as at least a trend (p < 0.10) toward significance on univariate analysis from Table 3.