It has been reported in Barcelona that after forensic tests only 28% of ill-defined causes of death remained ill-defined, the rest being redistributed in other specific causes of death, mainly diseases of circulatory system and to a lesser extent suicide [ 25].
We found a stronger relationship between PM10 and SIDS + ill-defined causes of death, but the association between O3 and SIDS + ill-defined causes of death was lower than for SIDS alone.
It is likely that ill-defined causes of death hide important pathologies, and a high proportion of ill-defined causes of death may therefore lead to an underestimation of the mortality rates from well-defined causes of death, such as ischemic heart disease (IHD), suicide or injuries [ 8– 11].
Ill-defined causes of death were defined as codes 780 799 ("Symptoms, signs and ill-defined conditions") or R00 R99 ("Symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified"), according to respectively the ninth or tenth revision of the International Classification of Diseases.
Because a considerable increase in mortality rates due to ill-defined causes of death in RJ was observed from 1990 onwards, defined deaths were compensated by ill-defined causes preliminary to adjustments.
The proportion of ill-defined causes of death was computed as the share of the age-standardized mortality rate (ASMR) for ill-defined conditions on the all-cause ASMR.
Others swallowed only enough fentanyl to leave them seriously ill but short of death.
Rule is by "bread and circuses" and citizens are well-off, safe, never ill and unafraid of death.
Former San Quentin Warden Jeannie Woodford, state prison director under Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, said extreme idleness and the cramped, ill-suited confines of death row complicate drug abuse.
The rates for the SIM are approximately 90% in terms of the quality of the data (the rate of ill-defined causes of death being lower than 10%) and 83% in terms of coverage (deaths registered in the SIM in relation to the 2002 demographic estimates) [32].
Proportions of ill-defined causes of death higher than 3% were observed in Norway, Denmark, Netherlands, France, Switzerland and Poland.
