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Improving the autopsy rate in a teaching hospital
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To the Editor.-Autopsy studies have contributed to the development of modern medicine through their role in elaborating precise diagnoses and research protocols as well as in allowing better comparisons between academic and clinical performance. Since the 1960s, a steady decrease in autopsy rates has been reported in academic institutions, resulting presently in the low rate of 11%.1 Among the suggested explanations for this decline, which occurs in most teaching hospitals, is that autopsies ...
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Autopsy: role of the family physician. (includes patient information handout)
American Family Physician
; 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., in Alexandria, Egypt. However, it was not until the 18th century and the work of Morgagni (the founder of modern pathology) that the autopsy became a systematic
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Declining autopsy rates in stillbirths and infant deaths: Results from Funen County, Denmark, 1986-96
Journal of Maternal - Fetal & Neonatal Medicine
; Objective: The aim of this study was to describe the development of the autopsy rate in stillbirths and infant deaths in an 11-year period and evaluate the information gained by performing an autopsy. Methods: Included in the study were all stillbirths and infant deaths in Funen County, Denmark, in
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 "Blade (Toledo, OH)")
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The disappearing autopsy: Nationally and locally, hospitals are performing fewer of these important procedures.
Blade (Toledo, OH)
; Byline: Luke Shockman Apr. 17--Alzheimer's Disease, heart disease, cancer; doctors know more about almost any ailment - and its treatment - thanks to autopsies. Wondering if Grandpa really had Alzheimer's Disease? Only an autopsy will tell you. Confused about why your mother died young from heart
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Geriatric Autopsy Findings in the Last 10 Years: an Urban Teaching Hospital Experience
Journal of the National Medical Association
; In this study, we reviewed autopsy records for clinical data and autopsy findings from patients aged 70 or more, over a 10-year period (1993 to 2002) in an urban university hospital. For that period, there were a total of 772 autopsy cases of which 180 (23%) patients were aged 70 years or older. We
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Would More Autopsies Improve Patient Care?; The role of autopsies-examinations of a body after death to verify the cause of death-is hard for people to understand. Even physicians don't agree.
The Washington Post
; Yes.The more autopsies are done, the more knowledge we'll have to help living patients. A recent study of more than 2,000 autopsies found that hospitals with the highest autopsy rates-over 40 percent-had the fewest discrepancies between clinical diagnoses and autopsy findings. Other studies show
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