Table 4 Post-Mortem Rates

Investigation

IPDs (n = 81, %)

NNDs (n = 36, %)

All deaths (n = 117, %)

 Coroner’s Case

9 (11.1)

31 (86.1)

40 (34.2)

 Total PM

22 (27.2)

34 (94.4)

56 (47.9)

 Offered and declined

49 (60.5)

2 (5.6)

51 (43.6)

 Placental Histology

76 (93.8)

31 (86.1)

107 (91.5)

Investigation

Infants, Major congenital malformation (n = 35, %)

Normally formed (n = 82, %)

Normally formed >37/40 (n = 40)

 Coroner’s Case

0

40 (48.4)

33 (82.5)

 Total PM

6 (17.1)

50 (61)

37 (92.5)

 Offered and declined

22 (62.9)

29 (35.4)

3 (7.5)

 Placental Histology

30 (85.7)

77 (93.9)

36 (90)