Value of autopsy in the modern age: Discrepancy between clinical and autopsy diagnoses

Table 1 Group A: Analyzing the 174 hospital autopsies, 2006-2009

Group A	Sex	Age	Specialty	Autopsy diagnosis	Discrepancy
174 cases, 2006-2009	58% male, 41%female, 1% undefined	58% adults, 29% infants, 12% fetuses, 1% children	55% neonatology, 19% gynecology, 10% internal medicine, 9% others, 7% external	23% pulmonary, 10% syndromes/malformations, 8% infections, 6% cardiovascular, 4% placental, 4% neoplasms, 45% miscellaneous	55%

Table 2 Group B: Analyzing the 119 hospital autopsies, 2010-2013

Group B	Sex	Age	Specialty	Autopsy diagnosis	Discrepancy
119 cases, 2010-2013	51% male, 48% female, 1% undefined	31% adults, 46% infants, 17% fetuses, 6% children	48% neonatology, 19% gynecology, 12% general surgery, 10% cardiac surgery, 7% others, 4% neurology	25% pulmonary, 15% cardiovascular, 11% syndromes/malformations, 9% infectious, 3% neoplasms, 1% placental, 36% miscellaneous	56%

Table 3 Group C: Analyzing the 168 hospital autopsies, 2014-2017

Group C	Sex	Age	Specialty	Autopsy diagnosis	Discrepancy
168 cases, 2014-2017	50% male, 50% female	37% infants, 36% fetuses, 26% adults, 1% children	30% gynecology, 25% neonatology, 17% cardiac surgery, 13% others, 6% emergency room, 5% general surgery, 4% external	24% pulmonary, 15% cardiovascular, 11% syndromes/malformations, 6% placental, 3% infections, 2% neoplasms, 39% miscellaneous	58%

Table 4 Group D: Analyzing the 184 hospital autopsies, 2018-2021

Group D	Sex	Age	Specialty	Autopsy diagnosis	Discrepancy
184 cases, 2018-2021	56% male, 43% female, 1% undefined	38% adults, 33% fetuses, 26% infants, 3% children	32% gynecology, 21% neonatology, 21% external, 14% emergency room, 12% others	27% pulmonary, 23%cardiovascular, 6% syndromes/malformations, 5% placental, 4% infections, 2% neoplasms, 33% miscellaneous	58%

Table 5 Analyzing the 645 hospital autopsies, 2006-2021

Group	Sex	Age	Specialty	Autopsy diagnosis	Discrepancy
A + B + C + D = 645 cases, 2006-2021	53.75% male, 45.5% female, 0.75% undefined	38.25% adults, 34.5% infants, 24.5% fetuses, 2.75% children	37.25% neonatology, 25% gynecology, 10.25% others, 8% external, 6.75% cardiac surgery, 5% emergency room, 4.25% general surgery, 2.5% internal medicine, 1% neurology	24.75% pulmonary diseases, 14.75% cardiovascular diseases, 9.5% syndromes/malformations, 6% infections, 4% placental disease, 2.75% neoplasms, 38.25% miscellaneous	56.75%