The medical examiner and deaths in the hospital setting.
There has been a perceived increase in the number of medical negligence claims in recent years. The modern metropolitan medical examiner is increasingly called upon to deal with numerous medical, legal, social, and ethical issues. Nowhere is the role of the medical examiner more important than in the investigation of deaths related to surgical, diagnostic, anesthetic, or therapeutic procedures. Medical examiners have an important role in the investigative process. Through utilization of the offices and services of the medical examiner, questions raised by families, physicians, and other hospital employees may be satisfactorily answered a priori, and litigation may therefore be averted.
Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee.
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D001344:Autopsy; D003334:Coroners and Medical Examiners; D017052:Hospital Mortality; D006801:Humans; D007400:Interprofessional Relations; D016365:Liability, Legal; D008318:Malpractice / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D010337:Pathology Department, Hospital / Q000458:organization & administration*; D012308:Risk Management / Q000379:methods*; D014481:United States