Volume 2, Number 1—January 1996
Dispatch
Unexplained Deaths Due to Possibly Infectious Causes in the United States: Defining the Problem and Designing Surveillance and Laboratory Approaches
Table 3
Of selected ICD-9 codes, disease classifications accounting for most unexplained deaths due to possibly infectious causes (UDPIC) in the four study sites, 1992
| UDPIC with ICD-9 code included on death record by age group (%) |
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| Disease classification (ICD-9)* |
1-49 yr;
n = 744 |
1-14 yr;
n = 75 |
15-39 yr;
n = 295 |
40-49 yr;
n = 374 |
| Respiratory failure (799.1) | 205 (28) | 14 (19) | 91 (31) | 100 (27) |
| Unspecified septicemia (038.9) | 108 (14) | 8 (11) | 42 (14) | 58 (16) |
| Pneumonia, organism unspecified (486) | 101 (14) | 7 (9) | 33 (11) | 61 (16) |
| Other primary cardiomyopathy (425.4) | 84 (11) | 5 (7) | 26 (9) | 53 (14) |
| Shock without mention of trauma (785.5) | 83 (11) | 10 (13) | 29 (10) | 44 (12) |
| Other unknown or unspecified (799.9) | 75 (10) | 9 (12) | 35 (12) | 31 (8) |
| Totals† |
505 (68) |
39 (52) |
193 (65) |
273 (73) |
| *More than one of these disease classifications (ICD-9 code) may be listed on a death record. †UDPIC with at least one of the six disease classifications included on the death record. | ||||
1The Unexplained Deaths Working Group: Grechen Rothrock, University of California at Berkeley; Duc Vugia, California Department of Health Services; James Hadler, Matt Cartter, Connecticut Department of Public Health and Addiction Services; James Meek, Robin Ryder, Mark Wilson, Yale University School of Medicine; Michael Osterholm, Kristine L. MacDonald, Jean Rainbow, Norman Crouch, Kathy LeDell, Minnesota Department of Health; David Fleming, Katrina Hedberg, Oregon Health Division; Don Brenner, Mark Eberhard, James Olson, Pierre Rollin, R. Gibson Parrish, CDC.
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