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Infectious Disease Surveillance by Medical Examiners and Coroners [PDF]

Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2013
To the Editor: Medical examiners and coroners (ME/C) investigate ≈20% of all deaths in the United States (1); these include persons who die outside the health care system or die precipitously without a confirmed diagnosis. Surveillance through ME/C offices for unexplained deaths that might have infectious causes can serve as a sentinel system to ...
Kurt B. Nolte, Dianna M. Blau, Steven C. Clark   +2 more
doaj   +7 more sources

Medical Examiners, Coroners, and Bioterrorism [PDF]

Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2000
To the Editor: Federal, state, and local agencies are developing plans to detect and respond to bioterrorism. Medical examiners and coroners should be included in these plans.
Kurt B. Nolte, Carol Pertowski, Stephen S. Yoon   +2 more
doaj   +7 more sources

Mass fatality and disaster response preparedness across medical examiner and coroner offices in the United States. [PDF]

Forensic Sci Int Synerg
With the rise of mass fatalities and disasters, access to mass fatality and disaster planning trainings and resources available to medical examiners and coroners (MECs) in the United States should be reviewed.
Ascolese MA, Keyes KA, Ropero-Miller JD, Wire SE, Smiley-McDonald HM.   +4 more
europepmc   +3 more sources

Identifying Rare Circumstances Preceding Female Firearm Suicides: Validating A Large Language Model Approach.

JMIR Ment Health, 2023
BackgroundFirearm suicide has been more prevalent among males, but age-adjusted female firearm suicide rates increased by 20% from 2010 to 2020, outpacing the rate increase among males by about 8 percentage points, and female ...
Zhou W, Prater LC, Goldstein EV, Mooney SJ.   +3 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Accuracy of the national violent death reporting system in identifying unintentional firearm deaths to children by children. [PDF]

Inj Epidemiol
Background In assigning manner of death (MOD) for inclusion on death certificates, medical examiners and coroners do not always apply uniform criteria. Previous research indicates surveillance statistics based on death certificates, such as the National ...
Fischer S, Miller M, Barber C, Azrael D.
europepmc   +2 more sources

The impacts of governing agency: A comparison of resources in the patchwork of medicolegal death investigation systems. [PDF]

Forensic Sci Int Synerg
In the United States, medical examiners and coroners (MECs) fill critical roles within our public health and public safety systems. These professionals are primarily charged with determining the cause and manner of death as they investigate deaths and ...
Smiley-McDonald HM, Keyes KA, Wire S, Greenwell K, Santos NA, Ropero-Miller JD.   +5 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Suicide and drug toxicity mortality in the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic: use of medical examiner data for public health in Nova Scotia

Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Prevention in Canada, 2021
IntroductionThe COVID-19 pandemic and governmental responses have raised concerns about any corresponding rise in suicide and/or drug toxicity mortality due to exacerbations of mental illness, economic issues, changes to drug supply ...
Emily Schleihauf, Matthew J. Bowes
doaj   +1 more source

Deaths from cardiovascular disease involving anticoagulants: a systematic synthesis of coroners’ case reports

BJGP Open, 2022
Background: The global burden of cardiovascular disease (CVD) is forecast to increase, and anticoagulants will remain important medicines for its management.
Ali Anis, Carl Heneghan, Jeffrey K Aronson, Nicholas J DeVito, Georgia C Richards   +4 more
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Revisiting the formation mechanism for coronal rain from previous studies [PDF]

2021, RAA, Volume 21, No. 10, 255, 2021
Solar coronal rain is classified generally into two categories: flare-driven and quiescent coronal rain. The latter is observed to form along both closed and open magnetic field structures. Recently, we proposed that some of the quiescent coronal rain events, detected in the transition region and chromospheric diagnostics, along loop-like paths could ...
arxiv   +1 more source

Introductory evidence on data management and practice systems of forensic autopsies in sudden and unnatural deaths: a scoping review

Egyptian Journal of Forensic Sciences, 2022
Background The investigation into sudden unexpected and unnatural deaths supports criminal justice, aids in litigation, and provides important information for public health including surveillance, epidemiology, and prevention programs.
Salona Prahladh, Jacqueline van Wyk
doaj   +1 more source