A Reference Guide for Certification of Deaths Associated With Pregnancy on Death Certificates [PDF]
This reference guide provides physicians, medical examiners, coroners, and other medical certifiers with specific recommendations and examples of documenting different types of deaths associated with pregnancy.20222022-03-23T00:00 ...
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Investigating mortuary services in hospital settings [PDF]
Changes to the retention of human tissues and Department of Health guidance on good practice have resulted in the extension of the role of Anatomical Pathology Technologists (APTs).
Komaromy, Carol, Woodthorpe, Kate
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Current Trends in Child Abuse Prevention and Fatalities: The 2000 Fifty State Survey [PDF]
This survey takes a closer look at two pressing needs. The first is the important role of prevention, specifically at the most effective prevention programs and how they are funded.
Ching-Tung Wang +3 more
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The future of forensic bioinformation [PDF]
The collection and use of bioinformation is an important feature of contemporary efforts to ensure public safety and maintain (inter)national security.
McCartney, Carole +2 more
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SELLING ORGANS: THE ANSWER TO THE BURGEONING ORGAN DEFICIT [PDF]
Despite the outwardly strong controversy of compensating donors for their organs, it is apparent that, at the very least, the federal government, the primary entity that can effect change and ameliorate the lack of supply of transplantable organs, has ...
James, Christopher
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Modernizing the National Vital Statistics System Project ; volume 1, issue 1, July 2017 [PDF]
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Alliance to Modernize Healthcare (CAMH), a federally funded research and development center (FFRDC) operated by the MITRE Corporation, a not- for-profit organization, is working with the National ...
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Who Gets Killed in America? The National Violent Death Reporting System Is Keeping Track [PDF]
In 2014, over 42,000 US residents killed themselves, and another 16,000 were murdered, making violent death a critical an important public health problem.1 The National Violent Death Reporting System, or NVDRS, is a one-stop source of information on ...
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Child maltreatment mortality in Canada: An analysis of coroner and medical examiner data
Fatalities are the most severe consequence of child maltreatment, but there are gaps in what is known about the epidemiology of such deaths in Canada.The objectives of this study were to: (1) identify child maltreatment deaths among those classified as homicide or undetermined manner; (2) estimate rates of child maltreatment mortality by sex, age ...
Natasha, Richmond +5 more
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Applicability of virtopsy in veterinary practice: a short review [PDF]
Virtopsy is a new and rapidly evolving non-invasive autopsy procedure involving the use of modern imagingmodalities. It basically consists of three-dimensional body surface scanning by photogrammetry, multi-slicecomputed tomography (MSCT) and magnetic ...
Abu Bakar @ Zakaria, Md Zuki +2 more
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Will medical examiners enhance death certification and investigation? [PDF]
The Coroners and Justice Act 2009 provides the legislative framework for national implementation of Medical Examiners – which is still awaited. However, pilot sites were introduced in 2009 providing a tier of scrutiny to Medical Certificates of Cause of ...
Vaughan, CA
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