Surveillance of injury-related deaths: medicolegal autopsy rates and trends in Finland
- 1 August 2007
- journal article
- Published by BMJ in Injury Prevention
- Vol. 13 (4), 282-284
- https://doi.org/10.1136/ip.2006.012922
Abstract
Medicolegal autopsies are a vital tool for obtaining reliable injury mortality data. In Finland, medicolegal autopsies have increased from 13.6% of all deaths in 1970 to 23.8% in 2004. In fact, medicolegal autopsies are performed in 87.2% of all unintentional injury deaths, 98.3% of homicides and 99.5% of suicides. Finland has exceedingly high medicolegal autopsy rates compared with other countries. Autopsy rates should be appropriately considered when performing international comparisons of injury-related deaths.Keywords
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