Can cause of death be predicted from the pre-necropsy information provided in coroners' cases?

Journal of Clinical Pathology

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 124-126

  Biggs, M J P ^a   Brown, L J R ^a   Rutty, Guy N ^a,b  

^a LEICESTER ROYAL INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CAUSE OF DEATH; CORONER; HUMAN; PATHOLOGIST; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANAMNESIS; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; STANDARD; UNNECESSARY PROCEDURE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AUTOPSY; CAUSE OF DEATH; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CORONERS AND MEDICAL EXAMINERS; HUMANS; MEDICAL HISTORY TAKING; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY, CLINICAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; UNNECESSARY PROCEDURES;

EID: 38449110011     PISSN: 00219746     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jcp.2006.045245     Document Type: Article

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