Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về y học được đăng trên tạp chí y học Critical Care giúp cho các bạn có thêm kiến thức về ngành y học đề tài: Discrepancies between clinical and postmortem diagnoses in critically ill patients: an observational study. | Available online http content 7 6 R129 Research Open Access Discrepancies between clinical and postmortem diagnoses in critically ill patients an observational study Gavin D Perkins1 Danny F McAuley2 Sarah Davies3 and Fang Gao4 Specialist Registrar Intensive Care Unit Birmingham Heartlands and Solihull NHS Trust Teaching Birmingham Heartlands Hospital Birmingham UK 2Specialist Registrar Intensive Care Unit Birmingham Heartlands and Solihull NHS Trust Teaching Birmingham Heartlands Hospital Birmingham UK 3Pre-Registration House Officer Intensive Care Unit Birmingham Heartlands and Solihull NHS Trust Teaching Birmingham Heartlands Hospital Birmingham UK 4Consultant in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine Intensive Care Unit Birmingham Heartlands and Solihull NHS Trust Teaching Birmingham Heartlands Hospital Birmingham UK Correspondence F Gao Received 8 July 2003 Accepted 8 July 2003 Published 5 September 2003 Critical Care 2003 7 R129-R132 DOI cc2359 This article is online at http content 7 6 R129 2003 Perkins et al. licensee BioMed Central Ltd Print ISSN 1364-8535 Online ISSN 1466-609X . This is an Open Access article verbatim copying and redistribution of this article are permitted in all media for any purpose provided this notice is preserved along with the article s original URL. Abstract Introduction The autopsy has long been regarded as an important tool for confirming the clinical cause of death education and quality assurance. Concerns surrounding informed consent and the retention of organs have heightened clinicians anxieties in requesting permission to perform an autopsy. The present study was conducted to determine whether the autopsy still has a role to play in extending knowledge about the cause of death in a group of patients who died while receiving intensive care. Method We retrospectively investigated trends in postmortem examination rates and discrepancies between premortem clinical and .
