A prospective study of 1152 hospital autopsies: II. Analysis of inaccuracies in clinical diagnoses and their significance
- 1 April 1981
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in The Journal of Pathology
- Vol. 133 (4), 285-300
- https://doi.org/10.1002/path.1711330403
Abstract
A further analysis of 1152 hospital autopsies provides data on inaccuracies of specific diagnoses; there are many examples of overdiagnosis and underdiagnosis. All were encountered in a routine hospital autopsy service and their frequency confirms the importance of the hospital autopsy in medical audit. A knowledge of the misdiagnoses which recur frequently could provide guidance in the selection of cases for autopsy.This publication has 15 references indexed in Scilit:
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