BOGEN E, BUTT E M
Calif Med. 1953 Jul;79(1):16-9.
The 215,468 diagnoses recorded in 40,130 autopsies on patients treated at the Los Angeles County General Hospital during the 30 years between 1918 and 1948 were reviewed and tabulated. The primary causes of death as determined by the pathologists in these cases were recorded and the incidence of death from each disease in relation to the number of cases in which each occurred was computed. The age, sex and race distribution of patients examined postmortem and the incidence and fatality rates from various pathological conditions changed greatly during the period, owing to many factors, among them changes in elements of the population served by the hospital, an increasing incidence of older patients, and medical triumph over some formerly formidable diseases.
对1918年至1948年这30年间在洛杉矶县综合医院接受治疗的患者进行的40130例尸检记录的215468份诊断进行了回顾和制表。记录了病理学家确定的这些病例的主要死因，并计算了每种疾病的死亡发生率与每种疾病发生病例数的关系。在此期间，由于多种因素，包括医院服务人群构成的变化、老年患者发病率的增加以及医学对一些以前难以对付的疾病的攻克，尸检患者的年龄、性别和种族分布以及各种病理状况的发病率和死亡率发生了很大变化。
