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KMID : 0377619880530030175
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Korean Jungang Medical Journal
1988 Volume.53 No. 3 p.175 ~ p.185
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Postmortem Examination of Accidental Deaths in Medical Cares
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Abstract
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Medical progress has brought dramatic advances in the diagnosis and treatment of diseases, but in each advances, there have been adverse reactions and occasional death, when a patient dies while under medical care, the determination of a causal effect between the medical care and the death may tax one´s ingenuity.
All diagnostic and therapeutic procedures used in medical practice have the potential to injure a patient; thus it is theoretically possible for any type of medical care to contribute to, or be directly responsible for the death of a patient.
Death while under medical care does not necessarily mean unsatisfactory or negligent medical care, but our interest is in those patients whose deaths are unexpected and ordinarilly do not result from diagnostic or therapeutic procedures.
The object of this article is to assist those interested in identifying this problem and to aid them in sorting out, understanding, evoluting and utilizing the scientific evidence when the issue is that of death related to medical care.
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