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The autopsy is not dead: ongoing relevance of the autopsy [PDF]
Autopsy Case Reports, 2023 Autopsy requests have been trending downward for a variety of factors. There are differences between pre- and postmortem diagnoses. Autopsies remain a tool for education, public health research, quality control, and closure for families.We report two cases that illustrate the utility of autopsy for uncovering contributing factors in the death of these ...
Alexia Vignau, Clara Milikowski
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Clinical Autopsy vs Medicolegal Autopsy [PDF]
Medical Journal Armed Forces India, 2005 Post mortem examination of a dead body is carried out to gain insight into the disease process as well as for forensic application of medical knowledge. Although different specialists viz; pathologists and forensic medicine experts, carry out autopsy for these two purposes, on many occasions there may be overlap of these two fields of medicine.
Rb Kotabagi
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PLoS ONE, 2020 ObjectivesAutopsy rates worldwide have dropped significantly over the last five decades. Imaging based autopsies are increasingly used as alternatives to conventional autopsy (CA).
Myriam Hunink +2 more
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The conscientious autopsy [PDF]
Autopsy and Case Reports, 2019 Alex K Williamson
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COVID-19 PULMONARY PATHOLOGY: A MULTI-INSTITUTIONAL AUTOPSY COHORT FROM LVIV AND LVIV REGION
Proceedings of the Shevchenko Scientific Society: Medical Sciences, 2022 Introduction. In Ukraine 2,2 million coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19) cases are reported now with 51,8 thousand deaths. Methods. A retrospective analysis of 1036 consecutive autopsies at COVID-19 in 2020 was conducted on the basis of the Lviv ...
Julia Kuzyk +4 more
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Risks of suicide among family members of suicide victims: A nationwide sample of South Korea
Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2022 ObjectiveIdentifying the risks of completed suicide in suicide survivors is essential for policies supporting family members of suicide victims. We aimed to determine the suicide risk of suicide survivors and identify the number of suicides per 100,000 ...
Jihoon Jang +18 more
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Undertaking cause-specific mortality measurement in an unregistered population: an example from Tigray Region, Ethiopia [PDF]
Global Health Action, 2014 Background: The lack of adequate documentation of deaths, and particularly their cause, is often noted in African and Asian settings, but practical solutions for addressing the problem are not always clear.
Hagos Godefay +4 more
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Analysis of the role of autopsy teaching in the context of precision medicine [PDF]
E3S Web of Conferences, 2021 Autopsy is the foundation of general anatomy teaching and learning, and an indispensable part of medical education, and anatomy is the cornerstone of medical courses.
Fan Yan, Feng Chengan
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Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2021 Background: Because the suicide mortality depends on the lethality of suicide methods, the identification and prediction of suicide methods are important for suicide prevention.Methods: Examination data of suicide decedents were collected based on police
Hyewon Kim +8 more
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Local perceptions of causes of death in rural South Africa: a comparison of perceived and verbal autopsy causes of death [PDF]
Global Health Action, 2015 Background: Understanding how lay people perceive the causes of mortality and their associated risk factors is important for public health. In resource-limited settings, where verbal autopsy (VA) is used as the most expedient method of determining cause ...
Laith Hussain-Alkhateeb +4 more
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