Should we confirm our clinical diagnostic certainty by autopsies?

Intensive Care Medicine

Volumn 27, Issue 11, 2001, Pages 1750-1755

  Podbregar, M ^a   Voga, G ^a   Krivec, B ^a   Skale, R ^a   Pareznik R ^a   Gabrscek L ^a  

^a Department of Intensive Internal Medicine   (El Salvador)

Author keywords

Autopsy; Critical care; Diagnostic errors; Postmortem; Premortem errors

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CHRONIC DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; FEMALE; GENERAL HOSPITAL; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; MORTALITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AUTOPSY; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CRITICAL ILLNESS; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 0035206224     PISSN: 03424642     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00134-001-1129-x     Document Type: Article

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