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Autopsy of Adult Patients Deceased in an Academic Hospital: Considerations of Doctors and Next-of-Kin in the Consent Process

INTRODUCTION: Hospital autopsies, vanishing worldwide, need to be requested by clinicians and consented to by next-of-kin. The aim of this prospective observational study was to examine how often and why clinicians do not request an autopsy, and for what reasons next-of-kin allow, or refuse it. METH...

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Autores principales: Blokker, Britt M., Weustink, Annick C., Hunink, M. G. Myriam, Oosterhuis, J. Wolter
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5063372/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27736974
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0163811