Lunetta Philippe, Lounamaa Anne, Sihvonen Sanna
National Public Health Institute, Injury Prevention Unit, Helsinki, Finland.
Inj Prev. 2007 Aug;13(4):282-4. doi: 10.1136/ip.2006.012922.
Medicolegal autopsies are a vital tool for obtaining reliable injury mortality data. In Finland, medicolegal autopsies have increased from 13.6% of all deaths in 1970 to 23.8% in 2004. In fact, medicolegal autopsies are performed in 87.2% of all unintentional injury deaths, 98.3% of homicides and 99.5% of suicides. Finland has exceedingly high medicolegal autopsy rates compared with other countries. Autopsy rates should be appropriately considered when performing international comparisons of injury-related deaths.
法医解剖是获取可靠损伤死亡率数据的重要工具。在芬兰，法医解剖在所有死亡案例中所占的比例已从1970年的13.6%增至2004年的23.8%。事实上，在所有意外伤害死亡案例中，87.2%的案例进行了法医解剖；在所有他杀案例中，98.3%的案例进行了法医解剖；在所有自杀案例中，99.5%的案例进行了法医解剖。与其他国家相比，芬兰的法医解剖率极高。在对与损伤相关的死亡案例进行国际比较时，应适当考虑解剖率。
