Asnaes S, Paaske F
Forensic Sci Int. 1979 Jul-Aug;14(1):23-40. doi: 10.1016/0379-0738(79)90152-x.
A comparative examination has been made to evaluate decisions as to causes and modes of death among 436 consecutive medicolegal deaths before and after coming to autopsy. All available information was used. including police reports, in evaluating mode and cause of death prior to the autopsy. Among the women, the mode of death evaluation differed in 23.4% of the cases and the cause of death evaluation differed in 77.5% of the cases. Among the men, the mode of death evaluation differed in 23.4% of the cases and the cause of death evaluation differed in 46.9% of the cases. These figures were achieved, however, on the basis of the fact that in most cases the mode of death and cause of death were reported as unknown. After autopsy, the cause of death remained unknown in 3.3% of the females over the age of 2 years and in 4.2% of the male over the age of 2 years. No characteristic relationship was established between the differences found and the age groups. The investigation shows the importance of the medicolegal autopsy for correctly recording cases where the death is obscure.
对436例连续法医学死亡案例在尸检前后关于死亡原因和死亡方式的判定进行了比较研究。评估时使用了所有可得的信息，包括警方报告，用于在尸检前评估死亡方式和原因。在女性案例中，23.4%的案例死亡方式判定不同，77.5%的案例死亡原因判定不同。在男性案例中，23.4%的案例死亡方式判定不同，46.9%的案例死亡原因判定不同。然而，这些数据是基于大多数案例中死亡方式和原因被报告为未知这一事实得出的。尸检后，2岁以上女性中3.3%的案例死亡原因仍不明，2岁以上男性中4.2%的案例死亡原因仍不明。所发现的差异与年龄组之间未建立特征性关联。该调查表明了法医学尸检对于正确记录死因不明案例的重要性。
