The maternal autopsy

The maternal autopsy.

Careful study of reports prepared for the Confidential Enquiries into Maternal Deaths in England and Wales has made it clear that many maternal autopsy reports are not as informative as they might be. This is, in part at least, because no pathologist who does not work in a maternity unit can expect to see more than a handful of such deaths in a working lifetime. This paper describes briefly the...

Autopsy-certified maternal mortality at Ile-Ife, Nigeria

AIM Maternal mortality is a major health problem, especially in Nigeria, where accurate autopsy-based data on the prevalent causes are not readily available. The aim of this study was therefore to accurately determine the causes of maternal death as seen in a tertiary health facility in Nigeria. MATERIALS AND METHODS This was a descriptive, retrospective review of the postmortem autopsy findi...

Maternal Death, Autopsy Studies, and Lessons from Pathology

Perspectives P athology is quality control—it confirms, refutes, or elaborates on clinical diagnoses. Globally, the most important fatal condition for which there is a lack of autopsy evaluation is maternal death. One reason for this lack may be that everyone supposedly knows why mothers die in pregnancy and childbirth. In resource-poor or developing countries, where the World Health Organizati...

An Introduction to Psychological Autopsy

سخن سردبیر Editorial مجله دانشگاه علوم پزشکی رفسنجان دوره هجدهم، اسفند 1398، 1195-1196       درآمدی بر کالبد شکافی روانشناختی An Introduction to Psychological Autopsy   محسن رضائیان[1]   M. Rezaeian   کالبد شکافی روان‌شناختی (Psychological autopsy) روشی است که به منظور مطالعه عوامل خطر (Risk factors) در افرادی که خودکشی کرده‌اند، ابداع شده است. در این روش، با نزدیکان فرد متوفی مصا...

Validation of the verbal autopsy questionnaire for identifying maternal deaths in Pakistan