Relations between differing final main conditions and original underlying causes of death
| Examples | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Relation | Final main condition | Original underlying cause of death | Explainable by differences in ICD definitions and selection procedures? |
| (a) Final main condition a probable complication of the original underlying cause of death | Pneumonia | Pneumoconiosis | Yes |
| (b) Symptomatic final main condition | Abdominal pain | Ruptured ulcer of duodenum | Yes |
| (c) Final main condition not a probable complication of the original underlying cause of death: | |||
| supervening condition | Coronary disease | Suicide | Yes |
| unexpected necropsy finding | Perforated appendicitis with rupture (clinical investigation) | Sigmoid diverticulosis with rupture (necropsy result) | Yes |
| “competing” causes | Acute cholecystitis (surgery) | Arteriosclerosis | May be—More probably legitimately different the longer the interval between discharge and death |
| original underlying cause of death a probable complication of the final main condition | Malignant neoplasm of breast | Pneumonia | No |