Autopsy rate and a clinicopathological audit in an Australian metropolitan hospital — cause for concern?
- 1 April 1992
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AMPCo in The Medical Journal of Australia
- Vol. 156 (7) , 456-462
- https://doi.org/10.5694/j.1326-5377.1992.tb126470.x
Abstract
Objectives To determine the annual autopsy rates at five major Melbourne teaching hospitals between 1979 and 1989; to investigate the cause(s) of the decline in autopsy rates during that period; and...Keywords
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