Quantifying underreporting of law-enforcement-related deaths in United States vital statistics and news-media-based data sources: A capture-recapture analysis. [PDF]
PLoS Medicine, 2017 Prior research suggests that United States governmental sources documenting the number of law-enforcement-related deaths (i.e., fatalities due to injuries inflicted by law enforcement officers) undercount these incidents.
Justin M Feldman +3 more
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Factors associated with not seeking professional help or disclosing intent prior to suicide : A study of medical examiners' records in Nova Scotia [PDF]
, 2011 Individual-level data from clinical settings lack information on people who did not seek professional help prior to suicide. We used records of the Nova Scotia Medical Examiner Service (NSMES) to compare people who had contact with a health professional ...
Health Canada +5 more
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Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2012 We analyzed US multiple cause-of-death data for 2003–2006 for demographic and clinical determinants for autopsy in unexplained deaths possibly resulting from infectious causes.
Lindy Liu +3 more
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Deaths after police contact in England and Wales: the effects of Article 2 of the European Convention on Human Rights on coronial practice [PDF]
, 2016 This paper examines the role of coroners in investigating and reporting on cases of death after police contact (DAPC) in England and Wales. It considers how Article 2 (the right to life) of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) has affected ...
David Baker +22 more
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Fatal Infectious Disease Surveillance in a Medical Examiner Database
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2004 Increasing infectious disease deaths, the emergence of new infections, and bioterrorism have made surveillance for infectious diseases a public health concern.
Mitchell I. Wolfe +2 more
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Making sense of “excited delirium” in cases of death after police contact. [PDF]
, 2017 The term ‘excited delirium’ has been used by coroners’ courts and police regulators in England and Wales to classify some cases of death after police contact.
Baker, David
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An evidence-based guide to the investigation of sudden unexpected death in infancy [PDF]
, 2015 Purpose: Many countries now have detailed investigations following sudden unexpected death in infancy (SUDI) but there is no clear evidence as to the most effective way to investigate SUDI.
Ellis, Catherine +2 more
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Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Prevention in Canada, 2018 Timely public health surveillance is required to understand trends in opioid use and harms. Here, opioid dispensing data from the Nova Scotia Prescription Monitoring Program are presented alongside fatality data from the Nova Scotia Medical Examiner ...
Emily Schleihauf +5 more
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CORONERS AND MEDICAL EXAMINERS IN CONNECTICUT. [PDF]
JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 1883 Perhaps nothing has occurred during the past year of more general interest to the medical profession in Connecticut than the enactment of a new law concerning coroners. The desirability of a change in the methods of conducting inquests had long been apparent, when in May, 1879, the subject was brought to the notice of the Fellows of the Connecticut ...
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PLoS ONE, 2015 BackgroundThe 21st-century epidemic of pharmaceutical and other drug-intoxication deaths in the United States (US) has likely precipitated an increase in misclassified, undercounted suicides.
Ian R H Rockett +7 more
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