Concordance between clinical and postmortem diagnoses in a clinical hospital;Correlación clínica entre-el estudio pre mortem y la autopsia

Revista Medica de Chile

Volumn 125, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 1173-1176

  Chacón L, Manuel ^a,b   Gazitúa H, Ricardo ^a   Puebla A, Claudio ^a  

^a PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE   (Chile)

^b Departamento Medicina Interna   (Chile)

Author keywords

Autopsy; Diagnostic errors; Diagnostic services; Hospital mortality; Hospitals, teaching

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CAUSE OF DEATH; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AUTOPSY; CAUSE OF DEATH; DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 3242843222     PISSN: 00349887     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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