Effect of minimally invasive autopsy and ethnic background on acceptance of clinical postmortem investigation in adults. [PDF]
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).
I M Wagensveld +5 more
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Verbal Autopsy Methods with Multiple Causes of Death [PDF]
Statistical Science 2008, Vol. 23, No. 1, 78-91, 2008 Verbal autopsy procedures are widely used for estimating cause-specific mortality in areas without medical death certification. Data on symptoms reported by caregivers along with the cause of death are collected from a medical facility, and the cause-of-death distribution is estimated in the population where only symptom data are available.
King, Gary, Lu, Ying
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Autopsy in a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit: pathological and clinical agreement [PDF]
Jornal de Pediatria, 2022 Objectives: To evaluate neonatal autopsy rates at a tertiary hospital in southern Brazil ascertain the level of agreement between premortem and postmortem diagnosis. Methods: The authors reviewed all neonatal autopsies performed over a 10-year period and
Camila Penso +7 more
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Barriers to Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Autopsies, California [PDF]
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2004 Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) surveillance relies on autopsy and neuropathologic evaluation. The 1990–2000 CJD autopsy rate in California was 21%. Most neurologists were comfortable diagnosing CJD (83%), but few pathologists felt comfortable diagnosing
Janice K. Louie +6 more
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Using verbal autopsy to assess the prevalence of HIV infection among deaths in the ART period in rural Uganda: a prospective cohort study, 2006-2008 [PDF]
Population Health Metrics, 2011 Background Verbal autopsy is important for detecting causes of death including HIV in areas with inadequate vital registration systems. Before antiretroviral therapy (ART) introduction, a verbal autopsy study in rural Uganda found that half of adult ...
Mugisha Joseph O +7 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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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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Virtual histological staining of unlabeled autopsy tissue [PDF]
Nature Communications (2024), 2023 Histological examination is a crucial step in an autopsy; however, the traditional histochemical staining of post-mortem samples faces multiple challenges, including the inferior staining quality due to autolysis caused by delayed fixation of cadaver tissue, as well as the resource-intensive nature of chemical staining procedures covering large tissue ...
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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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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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