id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-003878-nmyyt51x de Campos, Fernando Peixoto Ferraz What does the future hold? 2012-03-30 .txt text/plain 1347 91 57 The discovery of these discrepancies in the autopsy room is a powerful tool for identifying faults in medical practice and shows the need for clinical audits. Their reasons vary from distaste for the procedure to a belief that the accuracy of modern investigative techniques avoids the need of autopsy in elucidating nothing extra to the clinical picture. Their increasing clinical confidence in the ante-mortem diagnoses supplants their need to request autopsies. Paradoxically, community doctors generally show that they appreciate receiving autopsy reports and that, in a high proportion of cases, the findings are unexpected and could influence their future clinical practice. If clinical autopsy rates continue to decline, the future practice of medicine will be blind to many adverse consequences of clinical actions and omissions. We advocate close communication between pathologists and clinicians in the context of the results of autopsy findings. Post-mortem imaging as an alternative to autopsy in the diagnosis of adult deaths: validation study Death of the teaching autopsy ./cache/cord-003878-nmyyt51x.txt ./txt/cord-003878-nmyyt51x.txt