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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
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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
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Mobile learning for delivering health professional education (protocol) [PDF]

, 2015
© 2015 The Cochrane Collaboration.This is the protocol for a review and there is no abstract. The objectives are as follows: The objective of this review is to evaluate the effectiveness of mLearning educational interventions for delivering pre ...
Ally, Chan, Chen, Childs, Cook, Crisp, Crompton, Feng, Frenk, George, Hashemi, Kuehn, Lahti, Marchal, Martin, Miller, Motiwalla, Ozdamli, Rasmussen, Rosenberg, Rowe, Sangrà A, Schünemann, Sharples   +23 more
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Drug poisonings following bariatric surgery: Case series report

British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, EarlyView.
Bariatric surgery alters gastrointestinal anatomy and physiology, which likely impacts upon oral medication absorption. Drug‐ and alcohol‐related deaths in this population are being increasingly reported; however, toxicological detail is lacking. Using data reported to the National Programme on Substance Use Mortality, we identified 18 deaths in people
Eman Mshari, Fannie LaJeunesse‐Trempe, Stephen Morley, Caroline Copeland   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Iowa Office of the State Medical Examiner Newsletter, October 31, 2007, no. 3 [PDF]

, 2007
The official newsletter of the Iowa Office of the State Medical ...

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Choice and Death: Analysis of Medical Assistance in Dying for Head and Neck Cancer in Ontario

The Laryngoscope, EarlyView.
The uptake of MAiD for head and neck cancer (HNC) has been steadily increasing since 2016, when MAiD first became available in Canada. Our study projects a substantial increase in the future use of MAiD for patients with HNC. As such, our health system needs to re‐evaluate and implement the necessary infrastructure to support the projected increase in ...
Tanika Curry, Emily Wener, Michael Odell, Lisa Caulley, Rashi Ramchandani, Alyssa Grant, Kednapa Thavorn, Andrea Lasso, Shaun Kilty   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Can we use medical examiners' records for suicide surveillance and prevention research in Nova Scotia? [PDF]

, 2011
Introduction: Medical examiners' records can contribute to our understanding of the extent of suicide in a population, as well as associated sociodemographic and other ...
Bassett, R., Bowes, M. J., Campbell, L. A., Cartwright, J., Donahue, M., Jackson, L., Kisely, S.   +6 more
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Autopsy, deathways, and intercultural healthcare in the southern Peruvian Andes Autopsie, pratiques mortuaires et soins de santé interculturels dans le sud des Andes péruviennes

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
While death remains a popular topic for anthropology, relatively few ethnographic accounts consider the modern bureaucratic processes accompanying it. One such process is public health autopsy, which scholars have largely taken for granted. Existing analysis has regarded it as a form of ‘cultural brokering’ and autopsy reluctance in communities is seen,
David M.R. Orr
wiley   +1 more source

Improving drug identification in overdose death surveillance by using clinical natural language processing models

Journal of Forensic Sciences, EarlyView.
Abstract The rising rate of drug‐related deaths in the United States, largely driven by fentanyl, requires timely and accurate surveillance. However, critical overdose data are often buried in free‐text coroner reports, leading to delays and information loss when coded into ICD (International Classification of Disease)‐10 classifications.
Arthur J. Funnell, Panayiotis Petousis, Fabrice Harel‐Canada, Ruby Romero, Alex A. T. Bui, Adam Koncsol, Hritika Chaturvedi, Chelsea Shover, David Goodman‐Meza   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Mass fatality and disaster response preparedness across medical examiner and coroner offices in the United States

Forensic Science International: Synergy
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.
Micaela A. Ascolese, Kelly A. Keyes, Jeri D. Ropero-Miller, Sean E. Wire, Hope M. Smiley-McDonald   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source