Hessø R
Gaustad Hospital, Oslo University.
Acta Psychiatr Scand Suppl. 1987;336:17-21. doi: 10.1111/j.1600-0447.1987.tb10798.x.
Procedures followed in reporting and registering death in each of the Scandinavian countries are scrutinized to find out whether the pronounced difference in the suicide rates between Norway and the other Scandinavian countries might be due to the under-reporting of suicide in Norway. A survey is also given of the practices followed when classifying and coding cause-of-death. The routine and practice followed when registering, classifying and coding varies considerably from country to country. However, none of the procedural differences could explain the low Norwegian rates and the Norwegian suicide statistics were found to be at least as accurate and reliable as those in Denmark, Finland or Sweden.
对斯堪的纳维亚各国报告和登记死亡的程序进行了审查，以查明挪威与其他斯堪的纳维亚国家自杀率存在显著差异是否可能是由于挪威自杀报告不足所致。还对死因分类和编码时的做法进行了调查。各国在登记、分类和编码时遵循的常规和做法差异很大。然而，程序上的差异都无法解释挪威的低自杀率，而且发现挪威的自杀统计数据至少与丹麦、芬兰或瑞典的一样准确可靠。
