From: Quality of death notification forms in North West Bank/Palestine: a descriptive study
Characteristics | Types of major errors | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Incorrect sequence | No acceptable cause | Writing mechanism only | ||||
n (%) | P value* | n (%) | P value* | n (%) | P value* | |
Age of deceased (years) | ||||||
<1 | 11 (44.0) | 0.731 | 10 (31.3) | 0.379 | 14 (43.8) | 0.649 |
1–29 | 20 (46.5) | 12 (22.6) | 20 (37.7) | |||
30–50 | 19 (48.7) | 8 (15.4) | 26 (50.0) | |||
>50 | 177 (52.7) | 99 (24.1) | 184 (45.0) | |||
Gender of deceased | ||||||
Male | 123 (53.5) | 0.350 | 60 (20.8) | 0.062 | 131 (45.5) | 0.618 |
Female | 104 (48.6) | 69 (26.4) | 113 (43.8) | |||
Delay (days) | ||||||
<7 | 178 (52.2) | 0.364 | 95 (22.2) | 0.165 | 190 (44.5) | 0.922 |
≥7 | 49 (47.1) | 34 (28.3) | 54 (45.0) | |||
Location | ||||||
Hospital | 143 (51.6) | 0.740 | 68 (20.3) | 0.023 | 148 (44.2) | 0.800 |
Home | 84 (50.0) | 61 (28.8) | 96 (45.2) | |||
Hospital | ||||||
Governmental | 112 (52.3) | 0.662 | 53 (20.1) 15 (21.1) | 0.845 | 117 (44.3) | 0.921 |
31 (49.2) | 31 (43.7) | |||||
Non-Governmental | 31 (49.2%) | 15 (21.1%) | 31 (43.7%) | |||
Notifying physician | ||||||
Resident | 111 (51.9) | 0.340 | 52 (20.0) | 0.266 | 112 (43.1) | 0.605 |
Specialist | 50 (56.8) | 26 (25.5) | 50 (49.0) | |||
Forensic | 10 (38.5) | 9 (24.3) | 14 (37.8) | |||
G.P. | 56 (47.9) | 42 (28.4) | 68 (45.9) |