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Medico-legal issues related to emergency physicians’ documentation in Canadian emergency departments
ObjectivesPhysician documentation plays a central role in the delivery of safe patient care. It describes a physician’s clinical decision-making and...
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Artificial intelligence in healthcare: why not apply the medico-legal method starting with the Collingridge dilemma?
Technology has greatly influenced and radically changed human life, from communication to creativity and from productivity to entertainment. The...
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Seasonal variation in medico-legal autopsies in Finland—a nationwide analysis of the period 2016–2021
Both natural and unnatural mortality have seasonal variation. In spite of the established link between season and mortality, it is unclear whether...
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Examining the use of alternative light sources in medico-legal assessments of blunt-force trauma: a systematic review
The ability to analyze blunt-force trauma is crucial for deciphering valuable clues concerning mechanisms of injury and as evidence for medico-legal...
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Medico-legal history taking from the victims of sexual assaults: the role of nurse examiners
BackgroundSexual assault examiners provides comprehensive health care to victims of sexual assault. Communication with the victim is important to...
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European Council of Legal Medicine (ECLM) on-site inspection forms for forensic pathology, anthropology, odontology, genetics, entomology and toxicology for forensic and medico-legal scene and corpse investigation: the Parma form
Further to a previous publication by the European Council of Legal Medicine (ECLM) concerning on-site forensic and medico-legal scene and corpse...
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Human Decedent Identification Unit: identifying the deceased at a South African medico-legal mortuary
The Johannesburg Forensic Pathology Services medico-legal mortuary perform postmortem examinations on all cases of unnatural deaths in the greater...
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Occurrence of necrophagous flies of forensic importance in medico-legal cases in Tamil Nadu State, India
BackgroundThe present study is based on the necrophagous fly samples collected from 24 medico-legal cases between the year 2011 and 2018 in Tamil...
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The epidemiological and medico-legal characteristics of violent deaths and spousal homicides through a population of women autopsied within the Forensic Medicine Department of the University Hospital of Annaba
BackgroundDomestic violence is a real public health problem with considerable consequences, ranging from minor injuries to death. Our study aims to...
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Lessons learned from examination of Canadian medico-legal cases related to interventional therapies for chronic pain management
PurposeChronic pain is a common condition affecting almost one in five Canadians. One of the methods used to treat chronic pain is injection...
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Femoral nerve injury in gynecologic surgery: medico-legal issues for best surgical practices
BackgroundFemoral nerve injury following gynecologic surgery may be a postoperative complication, leading to medical malpractice claims and...
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Fatal coronary perforation during percutaneous coronary intervention: The medico-legal interest in establishing the correlation between in vivo imaging and post-mortem histopathology
A 64-year-old man diagnosed with chronic coronary syndrome (CCS) underwent elective percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) to place a stent in a...
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Cervical spine injury: clinical and medico-legal overview
Spinal trauma is an important cause of disability worldwide. Injury to the cervical spine (CS) occurs frequently after major trauma. 5–10% of...
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Medico-legal assessment of personal damage in older people: report from a multidisciplinary consensus conference
Ageing of the global population represents a challenge for national healthcare systems and healthcare professionals, including medico-legal experts,...
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Enhanced autopsy triage (EA-Triage) in drug-related deaths: integrating quick toxicological analysis and postmortem computed tomography
The objective was to assess the diagnostic accuracy of an enhanced autopsy triage (EA-Triage) setup consisting of postmortem computed tomography...
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Post-mortem detection of neuronal and astroglial biochemical markers in serum and urine for diagnostics of traumatic brain injury
Currently available epidemiological data shows that traumatic brain injury (TBI) represents one of the leading causes of death that is associated...
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Presumed adverse events in health care are a frequent indication for medico-legal autopsy in Finland
The medico-legal autopsy is an essential tool in investigating deaths caused by an adverse event in health care, for both clinical risk management...
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Buprenorphine deaths confirmed by toxicology reveal a low proportion of opioid agonist treatment before death in Finland
We studied opioid agonist treatment (OAT) status before buprenorphine-related death in Finland, where buprenorphine is the principal OAT medicine and...
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Human identification: a review of methods employed within an Australian coronial death investigation system
Whilst many identification methods have been widely described and discussed in the literature, and considered in disaster and humanitarian contexts,...
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Vehicle-assisted ligature decapitation – an unusual case report
Suicide by vehicle-assisted strangulation resulting in decapitation is a rare occurrence, characterized by a high kinetic energy mechanism that...
