The value of autopsy from a clinical point of view. A survey of 250 general practitioners and hospital clinicians in the county of Sor-Trondelag, Norway

APMIS

Volumn 106, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 693-698

  Midelfart, Jana ^a,c   Aase, Steinar ^a,b  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b TRONDHEIM UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^c Kirurgisk Avdeling   (Norway)

Author keywords

Autopsy; Physicians' attitude

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; AUTOPSY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HUMAN; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; NORWAY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE;

EID: 0031858357     PISSN: 09034641     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1699-0463.1998.tb00213.x     Document Type: Article

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