Autopsies and death certification in deaths due to blunt trauma: What are we missing? - PMC
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Injuries missed at initial diagnoses or operations have the potential to cause disastrous
complications in trauma patients. Understanding the etiology of unrecognized injuries is …

BACKGROUND: Missed injuries continue to cause deaths amongst trauma patients.
Regardless of the definition of missed injuries, it is important to identify all injuries at any …

Background Despite improvements in prevention and rescue, mortality rates after severe
blunt trauma continue to be a problem. The present study analyses mortality patterns in a …

BACKGROUND: The true incidence of missed injuries in trauma-related deaths is unknown,
because in only about 60% of injury-related deaths nationwide is an autopsy performed …

OBJECTIVE: The role of autopsy in evaluating missed injury after traumatic death is well
established and discussed in the literature. The frequency of incidental findings in trauma …

This study examined the difference between clinical impressions and autopsy findings in a
group of patients dying on a university surgical service after blunt injury, penetrating injury …

Objectives The literature supports the concept that autopsies are useful in uncovering
missed injuries or undiagnosed conditions that contribute to death after injury, especially …

Post-mortem examination is considered to be the gold standard for the critique of medical
practice, providing a quality control tool for the retrospective evaluation of diagnoses and …

Background The epidemiology of trauma deaths in Europe is less than well investigated.
Thus, our goal was to study the contemporary patterns of trauma deaths within a defined …