title: [Issues involved in Dutch general practitioners' failure to request autopsy: report from three focus groups].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To investigate which reservations to autopsy general practitioners (GPs) experience in themselves and in relatives of the deceased.
  
  
  METHODS
  Focus-group discussions.
  
  
  METHODS
  Three focus-group discussions were organised (24 GPs in total), comprising the following three types of GP: those involved in the training of new GPs, those who were able to request autopsies without encountering practical obstacles, and those who did have to overcome these obstacles when requesting an autopsy.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Neither training nor day-to-day functioning as a GP equips Dutch physicians in regarding autopsy as a research tool. The reservations experienced by the GPs were based on emotional issues, organisational obstacles, and financial considerations.
authors.affiliation: Disciplinegroep Huisartsgeneeskunde, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, Groningen. f.oppewal@worldonline.nl
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Oppewal
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Meyboom-de Jong
mesh_terms: D001344:Autopsy; D005194:Family Practice; D017144:Focus Groups; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006801:Humans; D009426:Netherlands; D010821:Physicians, Family / Q000523:psychology; D012106:Research