Declining Autopsy Rates and Suicide Misclassification.

The article presents a study which examines the possible misclassification of suicide and the declining autopsy rates from Europe to Central and Northern Asia. It states that the association of suicide rates with death and autopsy rates were analyzed using the data from 35 countries during the period from 1979 to 2007. The result of the study shows that the validity of suicide mortality statistics may be spatially and temporally affected by autopsy rates.