PURPOSE: This study was conducted to describe and compare how emergency room (ER) nurses and coroners perceive good death and their attitudes toward death. METHODS: A survey was performed with 51 ER nurses in P city and 44 coroners nationwide. Data were collected from October 1, 2010 through February 28, 2011. Data were analyzed with descriptive statistics, t-test, ANCOVA, Scheffe's test using the IBM SPSS statistics 21.0 program. RESULTS: For the perception of good death and attitudes toward death, coroners scored higher (3.01+/-0.43 and 2.87+/-0.35, respectively) than ER nurses group (2.95+/-0.40 and 2.61+/-0.33, respectively), but the differences were not significant. The results of perception of good death and attitudes toward death were not statistically significant between ER nurses and coroners. CONCLUSION: The study showed no difference between ER nurses' perception of good death and attitudes toward death and those held by coroners. The findings of the study show that it is necessary to offer steady education on death to nurses and coroners to help them build a proper understanding of good death and grow positive attitudes toward death.
Coroners and Medical Examiners* ; Education ; Emergency Service, Hospital ; Humans

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.
Analysis of Variance ; Autopsy/standards* ; Cause of Death ; Coroners and Medical Examiners/education* ; Forensic Pathology ; Humans ; Liability, Legal ; Malpractice ; Medical Errors ; Quality Control