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Medical autopsies could be improved

By Hicbd
Tue Feb 23 2021 1:07 pm

"As a result, a vast percentage of death certificates — as much as 85% in some studies — have an error in the Cause of Death section, and about half have multiple errors. ...In over 10% of cases (some studies have estimated the number to be triple that), pathologists find that doctors missed something that, had it been caught, would have allowed the patient to walk out of the hospital alive."

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https://elemental.medium.com/the-slow-troubling-death-of-the-autopsy-82a372f8b617
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6188261/

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Healthcare U.S. Healthcare Medical / Health Research Medical Malpractice Medical Training / Schools

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