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CORONER VERSUS MEDICAL EXAMINER

open access: closedJAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 1953
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National Association of Medical Examiners Position Paper: Recommendations for the Documentation and Certification of Disaster-Related Deaths.

American Journal of Forensic Medicine and Pathology, 2023
Collecting and reporting accurate disaster mortality data are critical to informing disaster response and recovery efforts. The National Association of Medical Examiners convened an ad hoc committee to provide recommendations for the documentation and ...
S. Utley   +15 more
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Lawsuits Against Medical Examiners or Coroners Arising From Death Certificates

The American Journal of Forensic Medicine and Pathology, 1997
A data base search through Westlaw was conducted to ascertain lawsuits in which a medical examiner or coroner (ME/C) was sued because of the cause or manner of death stated on the death certificate. Sixteen reported cases were found between 1948 and 1995, with 10 of the cases occurring since 1985.
R. Hanzlick
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Ethical analysis of organ recovery denials by medical examiners, coroners, and justices of the peace.

Journal of transplant coordination : official publication of the North American Transplant Coordinators Organization, 1999
CONTEXT Despite its pivotal nature, until the early 1990s the role of medical examiners, coroners, and justices of the peace was largely ignored in discussions of the critical shortage of organs for transplantation in the United States.
T. Shafer   +3 more
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Medical examiners, coroners, and public health: a review and update.

Archives of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, 2009
CONTEXT Traditionally, the emphasis of work done by medical examiners, coroners, and the death investigation community has been viewed as serving the criminal justice system.
R. Hanzlick
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Medical Examiner and Coroner Systems

JAMA, 1998
Medical legal investigations in the United States (primarily unnatural or suspected unnatural deaths) are carried out by medical examiner or coroner systems. Medical examiners-usually physicians and generally with training in pathology, medicolegal death investigation, and performance of forensic autopsies-generally have greater expertise in unnatural ...
Randy Hanzlick, Debra Combs
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The Political Economy of Death: Do Coroners Perform as well as Medical Examiners in Determining Suicide?

Social Science Research Network, 2019
The determination of death in the United States can have strong financial implications. For example, a declaration of suicide can nullify life insurance benefits. However, the intent of death may be made by an elected official who is not required to have
Jose M. Fernandez
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Infant mortality in coroner/medical examiner investigations

Journal of Forensic and Legal Medicine, 2016
Infant mortality rate is generally regarded as a fundamental indicator of population health and is often used to validate public health interventions. Hamilton County, Ohio, has one of the highest rates in the nation. Most deaths that do not occur in the hospital fall under the jurisdiction of a coroner/medical examiner.
Laura M. Seske   +3 more
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Characteristics of Medical Examiner/Coroner Offices Accredited by the National Association of Medical Examiners

Journal of Forensic Sciences, 2013
AbstractThe National Association of Medical Examiners accredits medical examiner and coroner offices. Approximately 60 offices were fully or provisionally accredited as of late 2011, and these offices serve one‐quarter of the U.S. population. The calculated average population served was 1.6M but ranged from 0.3 to 10.5M.
J.D. Victor W. Weedn M.D.   +3 more
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Medical Examiners, Coroners, and Organ Recovery in the United States-Reply

, 1995
In Reply. —Dr Hanzlick presents the usual litany of some medical examiners' objections to mandates that compel the ME/C to cooperate with the release of organ donors. The appropriate response to these criticisms is to ask whether the objections are valid
T. Shafer
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