Is necropsy obsolete - An audit of the clinical autopsy over six decades: A study from Indian sub continent

• Main Authors: Nikhil Moorchung (Author), Vikram Singh (Author), Ankit Mishra (Author), Seema Patrikar (Author), Sunita Kakkar (Author), Vibha Dutta (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications, 2013-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Introduction: Several studies have documented a decrease in the autopsy rate. This study was taken up to analyse the cause of mortality, the discrepancies between the ante mortem and post mortem diagnosis and the discrepancies between diagnoses according to the type of the disease over a period of s...