title: [Report and death certificate].
abstract: The death certificate is a document which must be completed by the medical practitioner who examines the deceased person and it could be a valuable statistical tool. This approach is to be highly qualified in as much as an external examination of the body is often insufficient to make a valid diagnosis. The too rare recourse to autopsy--clinical as well as medico-legal--also does not provide clarification to these data. We try to highlight some medico-legal reflexes essential to good medical practice.
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire de Médecine Légale, Faculté de Médecine, ULB, Bruxelles.
authors.forename: J P
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Beauthier
mesh_terms: D001344:Autopsy / Q000592:standards; D003644:Death Certificates; D006801:Humans