Detecting Homicide in Hospital

The Beverly Allitt case and the subsequent inquiry have focused attention on the detection of covert hospital homicide. Effective investigation can only take place if there is prompt recognition of circumstances that justify suspicion about a death and immediate action is taken to retrieve potential...

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Autores principales: James, D S, Leadbeatter, S
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Royal College of Physicians of London 1997
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Original Papers
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5421020/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9192332
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spelling pubmed-54210202019-01-22 Detecting Homicide in Hospital James, D S Leadbeatter, S J R Coll Physicians Lond Original Papers The Beverly Allitt case and the subsequent inquiry have focused attention on the detection of covert hospital homicide. Effective investigation can only take place if there is prompt recognition of circumstances that justify suspicion about a death and immediate action is taken to retrieve potentially vital evidence. The hospital itself must take responsibility for the detection of covert homicide. Confidence that such deaths will be uncovered by 'routine' investigation through the existing coroner system, including post-mortem examination, is misplaced. Royal College of Physicians of London 1997 /pmc/articles/PMC5421020/ /pubmed/9192332 Text en © Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of London 1997 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) , which permits non-commercial use and redistribution provided that the original author and source are credited.
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