autopsy
From: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
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Date: 2008
autopsy see post-mortem examination .
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* Context.-Autopsy rates for patients dying in hospitals ... the nature of physician attitudes about autopsy in a large and varied population and to ... survey. Respondents agreed (77%) that autopsy results could affect their future medical ...
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... modern diagnostic technology, use of the autopsy as a means of assessing diagnostic accuracy ... period, the rate of misdiagnosis found at autopsy has not changed. Objectives.-To ascertain why an autopsy was requested, whether or not questions ...
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... Context.-Fear that damaging information from autopsy may be introduced as evidence in lawsuits alleging ... as one factor contributing to the decline in autopsy rates. Objective.-To determine how autopsy information influences the outcome of medical ...
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The role of the autopsy in medical malpractice cases, II: Controversy related to autopsy performance and reporting
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Controversy Related to Autopsy Performance and Reporting Context.-We ... relationship between discrepant clinical and autopsy findings and outcome of litigation ... characterize and discuss issues related to the autopsy and/or pathologist behavior that were ...
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Autopsy: role of the family physician. (includes patient information handout)
American Family Physician; 5/15/1993; Lipsky, Martin S.; 2555 words;
The word autopsy comes from the Greek root meaning to see for one's self. The use of autopsy to study disease began as early as 200 B.C ... Morgagni (the founder of modern pathology) that the autopsy became a systematic method of studying disease ...
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How Well Do We Communicate Autopsy Findings to Next of Kin?
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... perception of some families that felt the autopsy had revealed no new information. Hospitals ... In our study, subjects were notified of the autopsy results by telephone, by mail, or in person ... possibility of a meeting made available to discuss autopsy findings. Fifty-six percent of our families ... to ...
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Consecutive autopsies on an internal medicine service.(Original Article)
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Correlation of Clinical Findings and Autopsy Results After Fatal Injury from Motor Vehicular-Related Crashes
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THE DEATH OF THE AUTOPSY COST - AND FEAR OF WHAT EXAMINERS MIGHT FIND - FUEL A BIG DROP IN THE NUMBER OF AUTOPSIES
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The autopsy is on its deathbed. For most of the last ... know what to do if they're called to do an autopsy. That really scares me," said Dr. Elizabeth ... of error prevention programs must be the autopsy," said Lundberg, who is now editor-in-chief ...
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Geriatric Autopsy Findings in the Last 10 Years: an Urban Teaching Hospital Experience
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In this study, we reviewed autopsy records for clinical data and autopsy findings from patients aged 70 or more, over a 10-year ... hospital. For that period, there were a total of 772 autopsy cases of which 180 (23%) patients were aged 70 years ...
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Pathologist deplores decline in autopsies
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