University of Pittsburgh Medical Center remains tracker: A novel application for tracking decedents and improving the autopsy workflow

• Main Authors: Matthew A Smith (Author), Somak Roy (Author), Rick Nestler (Author), Beth Augustine (Author), David Miller (Author), Anil Parwani (Author), Lawrence Nichols (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Elsevier, 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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All hospitals deal with patient deaths. Multiple departments and personnel must be coordinated to ensure that decedents are safely managed. Prior to 2004, at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC), when a patient passed away, the process of alerting involved personnel, transporting the d...