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Medical Examiners, Coroners, and Bioterrorism [PDF]

Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2000
Kurt B. Nolte, Stephen S. Yoon, Carol Pertowski   +2 more
doaj   +3 more sources

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, Sofia Gruskin, Brent A Coull, Nancy Krieger   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Determinants for Autopsy after Unexplained Deaths Possibly Resulting from Infectious Causes, United States

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, Laura S. Callinan, Robert C. Holman, Dianna M. Blau   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

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, Kurt B. Nolte, Steven S. Yoon   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

At-a-glance - Concurrent monitoring of opioid prescribing practices and opioid-related deaths: the context in Nova Scotia, Canada

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, Kirstin Crabtree, Carolyn Dohoo, Sarah Fleming, Heather McPeake, Matthew Bowes   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Variable Classification of Drug-Intoxication Suicides across US States: A Partial Artifact of Forensics?

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, Gerald R Hobbs, Dan Wu, Haomiao Jia, Kurt B Nolte, Gordon S Smith, Sandra L Putnam, Eric D Caine   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

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

Forensic Science International: Synergy
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 ...
Hope M. Smiley-McDonald, Kelly A. Keyes, Sean Wire, Kathryn Greenwell, Nelson A. Santos, Jeri D. Ropero-Miller   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Evidence synthesis - The opioid crisis in Canada: a national perspective

Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Prevention in Canada, 2018
Introduction: This review provides a national summary of what is currently known about the Canadian opioid crisis with respect to opioid-related deaths and harms and potential risk factors as of December 2017.
Lisa Belzak, Jessica Halverson
doaj   +1 more source

Care Received by Migrant Women Who Died During or After Pregnancy: A National Confidential Case Note Review

BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics &Gynaecology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective To co‐produce a bespoke maternity care checklist for recently arrived migrant women in the UK. To use this to describe the maternity care received by recently arrived migrant women who died during or up to six weeks after pregnancy over the past decade in the UK, and generate hypotheses about areas for improvement.
Kerrie Stevenson, Kemi Ogunlana, Nirupama Prabhakar, Brenda Kelly, Allison Felker, Fiona Stevenson, Robert W. Aldridge, Sara Kenyon, Marian Knight, Nicola Vousden   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Postmortem submergence interval (PMSI) and human decomposition in anthropogenically constructed aqueous environments (pools, bathtubs, hot tubs, and spas)

Journal of Forensic Sciences, EarlyView.
Abstract Postmortem decomposition changes of bodies in aquatic environments may offer valuable insights into the postmortem submergence interval (PMSI) for medicolegal death investigators. However, the effects of immersion on the onset of such changes are poorly understood.
Vienna C. Lam, Gail S. Anderson, Melanie S. Archer, Gemma C. Dickson, Samantha K. Rowbotham   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source