The autopsy: Lessons from the National Confidential Enquiry into Perioperative Deaths

Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine

Volumn 95, Issue 7, 2002, Pages 328-330

  Carr, Norman J ^a,b   Burke, Margaret M E ^a   Corbishley, Catherine M ^a   Suarez, Valerie ^a   McCarthy, Keith P ^a  

^a NATIONAL CONFIDENTIAL ENQUIRY INTO PATIENT OUTCOME AND DEATH   (United Kingdom)

^b SOUTHAMPTON GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOPSY; CAUSE OF DEATH; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HUMAN; LOCAL ANESTHESIA; MEDICAL AUDIT; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; SHORT SURVEY; SURGICAL MORTALITY; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 0036062414     PISSN: 01410768     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1258/jrsm.95.7.328     Document Type: Short Survey

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