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  • Title: [Shortcomings in the coverage of death occurring outside hospitals].
    Author: Rammer L, Gustavsson E, Forsberg M, Ahlm K, Eriksson A.
    Journal: Lakartidningen; 1997 Dec 10; 94(50):4759-63. PubMed ID: 9445955.
    Abstract:
    The article consists in a report of physicians' observance of legislative requirements concerning the documentation and investigation of deaths outside hospital, as studied in a series of 973 cases of death occurring in four medium-sized Swedish communities during 1993. The results showed manifest shortcomings in the performance of post-mortem investigations: long delays in submitting the death certificate, negligence in reporting unnatural and unexpected deaths to the police, and inadequate notes in the patients' journals concerning death certification, which relatives had been informed, the circumstances of death, and whether post-mortem examination had been performed. A special checklist would be of value in the documentation adn investigation of deaths occurring outside hospital.
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