La Crisis de la Autopsia

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% of all hospital deaths. This decline has been documented and deplored in many countries, articles and books. Suggestions on how to resuscitate t...

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Autor principal: Martínez-Hernández,Antonio
Lenguaje:Spanish / Castilian
Publicado: Sociedad Médica de Santiago 2000
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spelling oai:scielo:S0034-988720000005000012004-06-22La Crisis de la AutopsiaMartínez-Hernández,Antonio Autopsy, Education, medical Pathology, clinical Pathology Department, hospital 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% 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 "classic" autopsy and rethink the procedure so as to make it useful, alluring and indispensable for the contemporary, concerned clinician. (Rev Med Chile 2000; 128: 457-59)info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessSociedad Médica de SantiagoRevista médica de Chile v.128 n.5 20002000-05-01text/htmlhttp://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0034-98872000000500001es10.4067/S0034-98872000000500001
institution Scielo Chile
collection Scielo Chile
language Spanish / Castilian
topic Autopsy, Education, medical
Pathology, clinical
Pathology Department, hospital
spellingShingle Autopsy, Education, medical
Pathology, clinical
Pathology Department, hospital
Martínez-Hernández,Antonio
La Crisis de la Autopsia
description 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% 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 "classic" autopsy and rethink the procedure so as to make it useful, alluring and indispensable for the contemporary, concerned clinician. (Rev Med Chile 2000; 128: 457-59)
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