La crisis de la autopsia / The autopsy in crisis
Rev. méd. Chile
;
128(5): 457-9, mayo 2000.
Article
in Spanish
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RESUMO
In the Western world the autopsy rate is declining at an alarming rate. In the United States of America the rate in some academic hospitals is less than 7 percent of all hospital deaths. This decline has been documented and deplored in many countries, articles and books. Suggestions on how to resuscitate the autopsy range from mandatory in all hospital deaths to economic bonuses to the doctors obtaining the highest autopsy rate. All in vain, the autopsy decline continues. Pathologists deploring this decline blamed clinical colleagues, new social attitudes, the litigious nature of modern society, but few have questioned a procedure little changed in more than a century. Perhaps the time has come to abandon the ÒclassicÓ autopsy and rethink the procedure so as to make it useful, alluring and indispensable for the contemporary, concerned clinician
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Main subject:
Pathology
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Pathology Department, Hospital
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Autopsy
Limits:
Humans
Language:
Spanish
Journal:
Rev. méd. Chile
Journal subject:
Medicine
Year:
2000
Type:
Article
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