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Relevance of the Autopsy as a Medical Tool: A Large Database of Physician Attitudes
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* Context.-Autopsy rates for patients dying in hospitals have declined from approximately 50% in the 1950s to 5% or less today.
Objective.-To investigate the nature of physician attitudes about autopsy in a large and varied population and to relate these attitudes to certain physician demographic variables.
Design.-A 10-question, anonymous, multiple-choice format questionnaire was distributed to all attending physicians at 4 hospitals: 2 that were university-affiliated (1 privat...
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Relevance of the Autopsy as a Medical Tool: A Large Database of Physician Attitudes
Archives of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
; * Context.-Autopsy rates for patients dying in hospitals have declined from approximately 50% in the 1950s to 5% or less today. Objective.-To investigate the nature of physician attitudes about autopsy in a large and varied population and to relate these attitudes to certain physician demographic
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Pathologists in a teaching institution assess the value of the autopsy
Archives of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
; * Context-With the advent of modern diagnostic technology, use of the autopsy as a means of assessing diagnostic accuracy has declined precipitously. Interestingly, during the same period, the rate of misdiagnosis found at autopsy has not changed. Objectives.-To ascertain why an autopsy was
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Declining autopsy rate in a French hospital: Physicians' attitudes to the autopsy and use of autopsy material in research publications
Archives of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
; * Context.-Autopsy rates have been declining throughout the world, although preservation of the autopsy is considered a fundamental principle of medical care. In France, the 1994 bioethics law requires physicians to inform relatives before performing an autopsy. Objective.-To analyze the following
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The persistent value of the autopsy.(Editorials)
American Family Physician
; 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
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Quality improvement on an academic autopsy service
Archives of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
; ... GD. Medicine without the autopsy. Arch Pathol Lab Med. 1984; 108:449-454. 6. Marwick C. Pathologists request autopsy revival [news]. JAMA. 1995;273: 1889, 1891. 7. Hanzlick R. The Medical Cause of Death Manual: Instructions for Writing Cause of Death Statements ...
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Autopsy: Questions and Answers.
American Family Physician
; What is an autopsy? An autopsy is an exam of the body after a person has died. The purpose of an autopsy is to answer any questions about the person's illness or the cause of death. In addition, autopsies provide valuable information that helps doctors save the lives of others. Who can request an
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How the Pediatric Autopsy Yields Valuable Information in a Vertically Integrated Health Care System
Archives of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
; Context.-Although autopsy rates have declined significantly in recent decades, studies continue to validate the autopsy as an important source of clinically relevant information, a teaching tool, and a quality assurance measure. A recent review of autopsy series showed a decline in the number of
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Declining clinical autopsy rates versus increasing medicolegal autopsy rates in Halifax, Nova Scotia: Why the difference? A historical perspective
Archives of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
; ... the forensic autopsy has had a recent gain in popularity, especially among the general public. Autopsy results are featured in news reports of suspicious deaths. Television networks, such as A&E and TLC, are full of specials on medical examiner's offices ...
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The Challenge of Using Autopsy Information for Quality Improvement
Archives of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
; The readership of the ARCHIVES should be alerted to an important recent publication on the efficacy of autopsy data. Shojania and colleagues1 have analyzed all reports published in the English literature during the past 40 years that focus on major discrepancies between clinical diagnoses and
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AUTOPSY RATES SEEN DROPPING AT AREA TEACHING HOSPITALS
The Boston Globe
; Massachusetts hospitals once performed autopsies on at least one in every three patients who died in their care. Now some teaching hospitals are doing half as many autopsies, and many community hospitals have stopped doing them altogether. Such statistics are part of a national trend of
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