Beauthier J P
Laboratoire de Médecine Légale, Faculté de Médecine, ULB, Bruxelles.
Rev Med Brux. 2004 Sep;25(4):A348-53.
The death certificate is a document which must be completed by the medical practitioner who examines the deceased person and it could be a valuable statistical tool. This approach is to be highly qualified in as much as an external examination of the body is often insufficient to make a valid diagnosis. The too rare recourse to autopsy--clinical as well as medico-legal--also does not provide clarification to these data. We try to highlight some medico-legal reflexes essential to good medical practice.
死亡证明是一份必须由检查死者的执业医师填写的文件，它可能是一种有价值的统计工具。这种方法需要具备很高的资质，因为仅对尸体进行外部检查往往不足以做出有效的诊断。临床及法医学上进行尸检的情况太过罕见，这也无法对这些数据进行澄清。我们试图强调一些对良好医疗实践至关重要的法医学思考。
