Utley Suzanne, Arunkumar Ponni, Das Tara, Fierro Marcella F, Fudenberg John, Harding Brett E, Hoffmann Bryan A, Keyes Kelly A, Lewis Adele, Maloney Katherine, O'Neal Bobbi Jo, Pinneri Kathryn, Rapkiewicz Amy, Sathyavagiswaran Lakshmanan, Weedn Victor, Williams Tiffany
From the Associate Medical Examiner, District Twelve Medical Examiner's Office, Florida.
Chief Medical Examiner, Cook County Medical Examiner's Office, Chicago, IL.
Am J Forensic Med Pathol. 2023 Sep 1;44(3):e80-e90. doi: 10.1097/PAF.0000000000000859.
Collecting and reporting accurate disaster mortality data are critical to informing disaster response and recovery efforts. The National Association of Medical Examiners convened an ad hoc committee to provide recommendations for the documentation and certification of disaster-related deaths. This article provides definitions for disasters and direct, indirect, and partially attributable disaster-related deaths; discusses jurisdiction for disaster-related deaths; offers recommendations for medical examiners/coroners (ME/Cs) for indicating the involvement of the disaster on the death certificate; discusses the role of the ME/C and non-ME/C in documenting and certifying disaster-related deaths; identifies existing systems for helping to identify the role of disaster on the death certificate; and describes disaster-related deaths that may require amendments of death certificates. The recommendations provided in this article seek to increase ME/C's understanding of disaster-related deaths and promote uniformity in how to document these deaths on the death certificate.
收集和报告准确的灾害死亡数据对于指导灾害应对和恢复工作至关重要。国家验尸官协会召集了一个特别委员会，以提供有关灾害相关死亡的记录和认证的建议。本文提供了灾害以及直接、间接和部分归因于灾害的相关死亡的定义；讨论了灾害相关死亡的管辖权；为法医/验尸官（ME/Cs）提供了关于在死亡证明上注明灾害影响的建议；讨论了ME/C和非ME/C在记录和认证灾害相关死亡中的作用；确定了有助于确定灾害在死亡证明上作用的现有系统；并描述了可能需要修改死亡证明的与灾害相关的死亡情况。本文提供的建议旨在增进ME/C对灾害相关死亡的理解，并促进在死亡证明上记录这些死亡方式的一致性。
