Table 4.
NVSS MVC occupants | NVSS MVC unspecified | Ratio NVSS unspecified/NVSS occupant | |
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Place of death | |||
Medical facility | 104,440 | 113,118 | 1.08 |
Decedent’s home | 2,110 | 2,314 | 1.10 |
Other | 146,483 | 132,157 | 0.90 |
Unknown | 1,354 | 2,023 | 1.49 |
State death investigation system | |||
Centralized state medical examiner | 39,540 | 42,121 | 1.06 |
County-based mixture of medical examiner and coroner | 124,989 | 119,836 | 0.96 |
County/district-based coroner | 40,863 | 49,381 | 1.21 |
County/district-based medical examiner | 48,995 | 38,274 | 0.78 |
State medical examiner | |||
Yes | 84,751 | 86,214 | 1.02 |
No | 169,636 | 163,398 | 0.96 |
Autopsy status (2003–2015) | |||
Not performed | 84,291 | 96,878 | 1.15 |
Performed | 80,288 | 80,145 | 1.00 |
Unknown | 12,219 | 13,178 | 1.08 |