UNNECESSARY CORONER'S INQUEST, AND EXTRAORDINARY VERDICT.

Impact of the growing use of narrative verdicts by coroners on geographic variations in suicide: analysis of coroners' inquest data.

BACKGROUND Coroners' death certificates form the basis of suicide statistics in England and Wales. Recent increases in coroners' use of narrative verdicts may affect the reliability of local and national suicide rates. METHOD We used Ministry of Justice data on inquests held between 2008 and 2009 and Local Authority suicide data (2001-02 and 2008-09) to investigate variations between coroners...

The coroner's inquest.

(a) He can make no effective ruling as to the steps any doctor should take in relation to any patient before death—even where that death, when it occurs, will fall within the coroner's jurisdiction; (b) He may indicate—as anyone else may—the type of deaths which he wishes to be reported to him—for example all deaths within 24 h of any operation, but there is no legal requirement upon anyone to ...

Napoleon's death. An inquest

From inquest to insight.

BACKGROUND In March 1995, The Chief Medical Examiner, Province of Manitoba, ordered an inquest into the deaths of 12 children who died in 1994 while undergoing or shortly after having undergone cardiac surgery at Health Sciences Centre in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. The inquest spanned over five years, and resulted in almost 50,000 pages of transcript, including the testimony of more than 80 wi...

Medical examiners, coroners, and bioterrorism.

To the Editor: Federal, state, and local agencies are developing plans to detect and respond to bioterrorism. Medical examiners and coroners should be included in these plans. A multifaceted response team for bioterrorist events includes health-care providers and law enforcement, public health, and public safety officials. Since medical examiners and coroners generally work independently from o...