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Knowledge, competencies and attitudes regarding external post-mortem physical examination: A survey among German post-graduate trainees in general practice

Background: The external post-mortem examination (EPME) is an important medical, legal and socio-economic task with far-reaching relevance; however, due to discrepancies between findings from EPMEs and actual cause of death, improvements in accuracy and quality are needed. Objectives: To investigate...

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Autores principales: Valentini, Jan, Goetz, Katja, Yen, Kathrin, Szecsenyi, Joachim, Dettling, Andrea, Joos, Stefanie, Steinhaeuser, Jost, Flum, Elisabeth
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Publicado: Taylor & Francis 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5795742/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29168414
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13814788.2017.1389884
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author Valentini, Jan
Goetz, Katja
Yen, Kathrin
Szecsenyi, Joachim
Dettling, Andrea
Joos, Stefanie
Steinhaeuser, Jost
Flum, Elisabeth
author_facet Valentini, Jan
Goetz, Katja
Yen, Kathrin
Szecsenyi, Joachim
Dettling, Andrea
Joos, Stefanie
Steinhaeuser, Jost
Flum, Elisabeth
author_sort Valentini, Jan
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description Background: The external post-mortem examination (EPME) is an important medical, legal and socio-economic task with far-reaching relevance; however, due to discrepancies between findings from EPMEs and actual cause of death, improvements in accuracy and quality are needed. Objectives: To investigate knowledge, competencies and attitudes regarding EPME in general practitioner (GP) post-graduate trainees. Methods: Before four post-graduate training courses on the EPME for general practitioner trainees, organized in 2014 in the German federal state of Baden-Wuerttemberg, a questionnaire on the EPME was distributed by the lecturer, completed by the GP post-graduate trainees and returned to the lecturer. The questionnaire consisted of 19 items related to three main categories: knowledge, competencies and attitudes. Results: Out of 380 GP post-graduate trainees, 128 completed and returned the questionnaire (response rate 33.7%). Less than 18% felt adequately confident in identifying a natural cause of death and less than 5% felt adequately confident in identifying an unnatural cause of death. Only 33% consistently fully uncover the corpse for the EPME. Conclusion: We found an important uncertainty in GP post-graduate trainees regarding their EPME knowledge and competencies.
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spelling pubmed-57957422018-02-28 Knowledge, competencies and attitudes regarding external post-mortem physical examination: A survey among German post-graduate trainees in general practice Valentini, Jan Goetz, Katja Yen, Kathrin Szecsenyi, Joachim Dettling, Andrea Joos, Stefanie Steinhaeuser, Jost Flum, Elisabeth Eur J Gen Pract Original Article Background: The external post-mortem examination (EPME) is an important medical, legal and socio-economic task with far-reaching relevance; however, due to discrepancies between findings from EPMEs and actual cause of death, improvements in accuracy and quality are needed. Objectives: To investigate knowledge, competencies and attitudes regarding EPME in general practitioner (GP) post-graduate trainees. Methods: Before four post-graduate training courses on the EPME for general practitioner trainees, organized in 2014 in the German federal state of Baden-Wuerttemberg, a questionnaire on the EPME was distributed by the lecturer, completed by the GP post-graduate trainees and returned to the lecturer. The questionnaire consisted of 19 items related to three main categories: knowledge, competencies and attitudes. Results: Out of 380 GP post-graduate trainees, 128 completed and returned the questionnaire (response rate 33.7%). Less than 18% felt adequately confident in identifying a natural cause of death and less than 5% felt adequately confident in identifying an unnatural cause of death. Only 33% consistently fully uncover the corpse for the EPME. Conclusion: We found an important uncertainty in GP post-graduate trainees regarding their EPME knowledge and competencies. Taylor & Francis 2017-11-23 /pmc/articles/PMC5795742/ /pubmed/29168414 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13814788.2017.1389884 Text en © 2018 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Valentini, Jan
Goetz, Katja
Yen, Kathrin
Szecsenyi, Joachim
Dettling, Andrea
Joos, Stefanie
Steinhaeuser, Jost
Flum, Elisabeth
Knowledge, competencies and attitudes regarding external post-mortem physical examination: A survey among German post-graduate trainees in general practice
title Knowledge, competencies and attitudes regarding external post-mortem physical examination: A survey among German post-graduate trainees in general practice
title_full Knowledge, competencies and attitudes regarding external post-mortem physical examination: A survey among German post-graduate trainees in general practice
title_fullStr Knowledge, competencies and attitudes regarding external post-mortem physical examination: A survey among German post-graduate trainees in general practice
title_full_unstemmed Knowledge, competencies and attitudes regarding external post-mortem physical examination: A survey among German post-graduate trainees in general practice
title_short Knowledge, competencies and attitudes regarding external post-mortem physical examination: A survey among German post-graduate trainees in general practice
title_sort knowledge, competencies and attitudes regarding external post-mortem physical examination: a survey among german post-graduate trainees in general practice
topic Original Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5795742/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29168414
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13814788.2017.1389884
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