title: [Medical death certificate].
abstract: The death certificate is a complex diagnostic procedure for the first medical responders (or general practioners) and requires a complex intellectual process. This article provides a practical and critical approach to the death certificate (modèle IIIc) which must be completed in the best way. The authors strongly emphasized the differences between violent death and natural death, keystone of the medicolegal approach and as a possible starting point of criminal investigations.
authors.affiliation: Centre de Médecine légale de Charleroi, Charleroi, Ransart. fbeauthier@skynet.be
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Beauthier
authors.forename: J-P
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Beauthier
mesh_terms: D001293:Attitude to Death; D002423:Cause of Death; D003644:Death Certificates; D005655:Funeral Rites; D006801:Humans; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic