[Clinicopathologic correlation in a series of 500 clinical autopsies (author's transl)].

Clinicopathologic correlation was analyzed in the primary diagnoses for a series of 500 clinical post mortem studies of 440 adults, 9 children aged 1-14 and 51 infants of perinatal age. The diagnoses were incorrect in 43% of all cases, of which 17% were important errors, 14% of relative importance and 12% of slight importance. There is an inverted relationship between the proportion of errors and duration of the hospital stay of the patients. This underlines the importance of clinical post mortem studies for control, improvement and better teaching methods in a hospital.