Norwegian data set | Swedish data set | Danish data set | |||||
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‘Expert’ | Level of certainty | Intentional self-poisoning | Other suicides | Intentional self-poisoning | Other suicides | Intentional self-poisoning | Other suicides |
Norwegian psychiatrist | Certain | 40 (85%) | 149 (97%) | 23 (96%) | 46 (100%) | 13 (72%) | 47 (100%) |
Uncertain | 2 (4%) | 1 (1%) | 1 (4%) | 0 | 1 (6%) | 0 | |
Insufficient information | 5 (11%) | 3 (2%) | 0 | 0 | 4 (22%) | 0 | |
Norwegian pathologist | Certain | 29 (94%) | 108 (98%) | 18 (95%) | 48 (100%) | 21 (100%) | 41 (100%) |
Uncertain | 1 (3%) | 0 | 1 (5%) | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Insufficient information | 1 (3%) | 2 (2%) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Norwegian expert coder | Certain | 34 (100%) | 104 (100%) | 19 (100%) | 42 (100%) | 18 (95%) | 42 (100%) |
Uncertain | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Insufficient information | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 (5%) | 0 | |
Swedish | Certain | 7 (44%) | 36 (70%) | 1 (5%) | 33 (72%) | 12 (67%) | 42 (89%) |
psychiatrist | Uncertain | 2 (12%) | 9 (18%) | 0 | 0 | 1 (5%) | 1 (2%) |
Insufficient information | 7 (44%) | 6 (12%) | 21 (95%) | 13 (28%) | 5 (28%) | 4 (9%) | |
Swedish pathologist | Certain | 12 (67%) | 45 (86%) | 20 (59%) | 92 (93%) | 15 (72%) | 39 (96%) |
Uncertain | 2 (11%) | 1 (2%) | 14 (41%) | 5 (5%) | 3 (14%) | 1 (2%) | |
Insufficient information | 4 (22%) | 6 (12%) | 0 | 2 (2%) | 3 (14%) | 1 (2%) | |
Danish psychiatrist | Certain | 2 (12%) | 38 (74%) | 1 (4%) | 28 (62%) | 10 (59%) | 45 (90%) |
Uncertain | 4 (23%) | 4 (8%) | 0 | 0 | 1 (6%) | 1 (2%) | |
Insufficient information | 11 (65%) | 9 (18%) | 22 (96%) | 17 (38%) | 6 (35%) | 4 (8%) | |
Danish pathologist | Certain | 7 (39%) | 46 (88%) | 6 (31%) | 29 (62%) | 20 (84%) | 45 (98%) |
Uncertain | 6 (33%) | 2 (4%) | 11 (58%) | 15 (32%) | 3 (12%) | 1 (2%) | |
Insufficient information | 5 (28%) | 4 (8%) | 2 (11%) | 3 (6%) | 1 (4%) | 0 | |
Danish expert coder | Certain | 14 (82%) | 45 (90%) | 17 (89%) | 34 (81%) | 22 (96%) | 45 (100%) |
Uncertain | 0 | 2 (4%) | 2 (11%) | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Insufficient information | 3 (18%) | 3 (6%) | 0 | 8 (19%) | 1 (4%) | 0 | |
All | Certain | 145 (73%) | 571 (92%) | 105 (59%) | 352 (85%) | 131 (81%) | 346 (96%) |
‘experts’ | Uncertain | 17 (9%) | 19 (3%) | 29 (16%) | 20 (5%) | 9 (6%) | 4 (1%) |
Insufficient information | 36 (18%) | 33 (5%) | 45 (25%) | 43 (10%) | 21 (13%) | 9 (3%) |
The experts’ reported level of certainty about intentional self-poisoning and all other suicide methods, n (%).