The death of autopsy?

The decline of consented autopsy is one of the most rapid changes in medical practice: autopsy rates of 25% were routine in the UK 30 years ago, yet the rate was 0·5% in 2013.1 The practice no longer exists in a quarter of UK National Health Service (NHS) Trusts.1 This substantial decline has also b...

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Published inThe Lancet (British edition) Vol. 386; no. 10009; p. 2141
Main Authors Turnbull, Angus, Martin, John, Osborn, Michael
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published England Elsevier Ltd 28.11.2015
Elsevier Limited
Subjects
Autopsies
Autopsy - trends
Consent
Health care policy
Hospitals
Humans
Informed Consent
Internal Medicine
Physicians
United Kingdom
Europe
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Summary:The decline of consented autopsy is one of the most rapid changes in medical practice: autopsy rates of 25% were routine in the UK 30 years ago, yet the rate was 0·5% in 2013.1 The practice no longer exists in a quarter of UK National Health Service (NHS) Trusts.1 This substantial decline has also been noted throughout Europe, the USA, and beyond.1 Several causes for the decline have been identified, the most important being few physician requests for autopsy.
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ISSN:0140-6736
1474-547X
DOI:10.1016/S0140-6736(15)01049-1