Virkkunen M, Penttilä A, Tenhu M, Huittinen V M, Lehti H, Rissanen V, Uotila U
Forensic Sci. 1975 Feb;5(1):73-9. doi: 10.1016/0300-9432(75)90090-4.
A comparative study was made on the underlying cause and mode of death determined in 600 consecutive cases by forensic physicians before and after medicolegal autopsy. All available information including police records, medical documents of decedents and the results of the external medicolegal examination of the corpse were utilized to determine the cause and mode of death before autopsy. The mode of death would have been defined erroneously in 10% of cases and the underlying cause of death in 29.5% of cases if medicolegal autopsy had not been performed. The present results are consistent with previous studies which indicate that the determination of the underlying cause of death is significantly more accurate when an autopsy is performed. They also suggest that in a large number of routine medicolegal cases a similar trend, but at a lower rate, is associated with the determination of the mode of death.
对法医在尸体解剖前后对600例连续病例所确定的根本死因和死亡方式进行了比较研究。在尸体解剖前，利用所有可用信息，包括警方记录、死者医疗文件和尸体法医学外部检查结果来确定死因和死亡方式。如果未进行法医尸体解剖，10%的病例死亡方式会被错误定义，29.5%的病例根本死因会被错误定义。目前的结果与先前的研究一致，先前研究表明进行尸体解剖时根本死因的确定明显更准确。这些结果还表明，在大量常规法医案件中，确定死亡方式也存在类似趋势，但比例较低。
