Referral for autopsies: analysis of 651 consecutive deaths in one general practice

Referral for autopsies: analysis of 651 consecutive deaths in one general practice.

Autopsies represent a key instrument in educating doctors and may aid quality assurance for primary and secondary care. This study shows that only a few patients have an autopsy, of which the majority are carried out at the request of the coroner for medicolegal reasons. Better education and communication between general practitioners, hospital clinicians, pathologists, and coroners may increas...

Be your own coroner: an audit of 500 consecutive deaths in a general practice.

General practitioners' medical records of a geographically defined population of about 1600-1800 have been retained since 1964. Details of care by general practitioners and hospital correspondence were available for 500 deaths (277 men, 223 women) from 1964 to 1985, including deaths at home, at work, in the street, in short term and long term institutional care, and within six months of release...

a time-series analysis of the demand for life insurance in iran

با توجه به تجزیه و تحلیل داده ها ما دریافتیم که سطح درامد و تعداد نمایندگیها باتقاضای بیمه عمر رابطه مستقیم دارند و نرخ بهره و بار تکفل با تقاضای بیمه عمر رابطه عکس دارند

One Thousand Consecutive Inductions of General Anæsthesia

An agenda for change in referral--consensus from general practice.

BACKGROUND Wide variations in rates of referral from primary to secondary care have been a matter of concern for many years. Effective strategies for optimizing referral depend on doctors being able to understand what the influences on their referral behaviour are, as well as having the ability to identify priority areas for action and to develop strategies for pushing through effective measure...