Evaluation of a teaching hospital necropsy service.
Open Access
- 1 June 1977
- journal article
- research article
- Published by BMJ in Journal of Clinical Pathology
- Vol. 30 (6) , 575-578
- https://doi.org/10.1136/jcp.30.6.575
Abstract
The information returned to the hospital clinician after a necropsy was investigated in a series of 1000 patients. It was found that specific clinical queries were answered in 83% of cases, that the necropsy corrected the major clinical diagnosis in 36% of cases, and that 29% of cases were used for undergraduate or postgraduate teaching. The results demonstrate the continuing value of the necropsy as an investigative and educative procedure.This publication has 16 references indexed in Scilit:
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