Postmortem CT is more accurate than clinical diagnosis for identifying the immediate cause of death in hospitalized patients: a prospective autopsy-based study

Despite 75 to 90 % physician accuracy in determining the underlying cause of death, precision of determination of the immediate cause of death is approximately 40 %. In contrast, two thirds of immediate causes of death in hospitalized patients are correctly diagnosed by postmortem computed tomograph...

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Autores principales: Inai, Kunihiro, Noriki, Sakon, Kinoshita, Kazuyuki, Sakai, Toyohiko, Kimura, Hirohiko, Nishijima, Akihiko, Iwasaki, Hiromichi, Naiki, Hironobu
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4923108/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27085336
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00428-016-1937-6

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4923108/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27085336
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00428-016-1937-6

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