The persistent value of the autopsy.(Editorials)

From: American Family Physician | Date: June 1, 2004| Author: | Copyright information

An extensive literature documents substantial rates of missed diagnoses that are detected at autopsy, including diagnoses that likely affected outcome. (1-4) Physicians generally have attributed these findings to selection bias. With the national autopsy rate for nonforensic deaths having fallen to roughly 5 percent, (5) physicians may request autopsy precisely in those cases likely to reveal important new diagnoses.

In response to a request by the College of American Pathologists and funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, we systematically reviewed the ...

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