Reasons why the quality of medico-legal autopsy in the medical tangle varies from two areas.
- Author:
Yan LIU
1
;
Chuan-hong ZHU
;
Guang-zhao HUANG
;
Hong YUE
Author Information
1. Department of medicolegal, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong Science and Technology University, Wuhan 430030, China.
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- MeSH:
Analysis of Variance;
Autopsy/standards*;
Cause of Death;
Coroners and Medical Examiners/education*;
Forensic Pathology;
Humans;
Liability, Legal;
Malpractice;
Medical Errors;
Quality Control
- From:
Journal of Forensic Medicine
2004;20(4):215-217
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
-
Abstract:
OBJECTIVE:To study reasons that the quality of medico-legal autopsy in the medical tangle varies from different area.
METHODS:Collecting the cases of medical tangle in two medico-legal agencies, then counting percent of classes on the ten key-points, analyzing the data of the cases by chi-square test and t-test.
RESULTS:It is indicated that the applied methods and standards of the two agencies are different. There are more different in seven keypoint of medicolegal autopsy by chi-square test.
CONCLUSION:Six key-points are found to be more important to medico-legal appraiser, standardization of forensic autopsy, standardization of picking up specimen from the body, diagnosis standardization of the cause of death, consultation system and standardization of writing documents on medico-legal autopsy.
