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Consistent acting, legal knowledge and competence of external postmortem examination in Dutch hospital settings by Cécile M. Woudenberg-van den Broek; Sophie AM. Werkhoven; Maurice P. Zeegers; Wilma LJM. Duijst-Heesters is a Medicine article available to read on EtoBox.
What is Consistent acting, legal knowledge and competence of external postmortem examination in Dutch hospital settings about?
A crucial role in the external postmortem examination system of the Netherlands is that of the attending physicians, who are either general practitioners or physicians in hospitals. They perform 85% of all external postmortem examinations and must immediately report to forensic physicians all unnatural deaths and deaths that they are not convinced to be natural. These attending physicians need therefore to be properly qualified and need to be competent, by acting consistently and by having knowledge of the appropriate laws surrounding external postmortem examination. The aim of this study is to analyse the competence of the attending physicians in hospital settings. This research studied whether they regard themselves as competent, whether they had knowledge of and acted according to the appropriate laws, and whether they acted consistently in following the procedures around external postmortem examinations. A survey was conducted among clinicians. After discarding 23 questionnaires for various reasons, 326 datasets remained on which the research was based. There was no significant difference between the medical specialists (79%) and the residents and fellows (86%) in their feeling
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- Author
- Cécile M. Woudenberg-van den Broek; Sophie AM. Werkhoven; Maurice P. Zeegers; Wilma LJM. Duijst-Heesters
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2021
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Medicine (Health Sciences)