title: [Traps in detection and post-mortem administration of death in the everyday practice of a clinician].
abstract: 70% of the death cases in Hungary occur in hospitals, so there is an extraordinary importance of the correct detection of the death, the medical cause of death and the management of the postmortem process. This article presents the obligations of physicians of clinical wards step-by-step, and the insufficiencies and faults experienced several times leading to complaints and pleas from the relatives. Beyond the legal background the specific needs of medical ethics and communication are also presented. Some elements of the final case-summary (epicrisis of the dead), as the complete and complex case-history are described in details. Author suggests a few points of view for renewing the hospital manuals and creating local professional protocols covering the activities of the clinical wards as well as the pathology and administrative units of the hospital, which protocols may act also as quality assurance and lawsuit prevention instruments. The examples of deficient practice are taken from medical experts' experiences and from Hungarian case-law.
authors.affiliation: Szegedi Tudományegyetem, Általános Orvostudományi Kar, Szent-Györgyi Albert Klinikai Központ, Igazságügyi Intézet, Szeged. kereszty.eva.margit@med.u-szeged.hu
authors.forename: Éva Margit
authors.initials: ÉM
authors.lastname: Kereszty
mesh_terms: D001344:Autopsy; D002102:Cadaver; D015510:Clinical Medicine / Q000592:standards*; D002985:Clinical Protocols / Q000592:standards; D003643:Death; D003644:Death Certificates; D004992:Ethics, Medical; D006761:Hospitals / Q000592:standards*; D006801:Humans; D006814:Hungary; D010819:Physician's Role