Table 2.

Odds ratio for the performance of an autopsy—multinomial logistic regression with all analysed variables

		Clinical autopsy		Forensic autopsy
Variable	Value	Odds ratio	95% CI	Odds ratio	95% CI
Age		0.96	0.96–0.96	0.94	0.94–0.94
Year		0.96	0.96–0.96	1.00	1.00–1.01
Place of death	Unknown	0.95	0.93–0.96	5.66	5.47–5.86
	Private residence	1.90	1.87–1.94	25.88	25.05–26.73
	Nursing home	0.23	0.23–0.24	0.60	0.56–0.64
Country of birth	Europe	0.73	0.71–0.76	0.82	0.79–0.86
	Outside Europe	0.42	0.40–0.45	0.51	0.48–0.54
	Nordic Region	1.14	1.12–1.17	1.71	1.66–1.77
Gender	Male	1.32	1.31–1.34	2.26	2.22–2.31
Surgery	No	0.75	0.74–0.77	8.39	7.86–8.95
	Unknown	0.91	0.88–0.83	19.92	18.64–21.28
Municipality	B	1.03	1.01–1.04	0.76	0.75–0.78
	C	0.94	0.92–0.94	0.59	0.57–0.60
COD	External	0.65	0.62–0.68	58.66	57.15–60.22
	Dementia	0.24	0.22–0.26	0.08	0.06–0.11

Dependent variable with reference category within parentheses: postmortem examination (no autopsy). Independent variables with reference categories within parentheses: place of death (hospital); country of birth (Sweden); gender (female); surgery, operated within four weeks prior to death (yes); municipality of residency (A); COD, underlying cause of death (other). All odds ratios differed statistically significantly from the reference categories with p value < 0.001. Age and year are included as continuous variables