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Postmortem Gone Astray
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: Received: 11 December 2023 / Approved: 12 December 2023 / Online: 12 December 2023 (05:28:50 CET)
How to cite: Šoša, I.; Perković, M. Postmortem Gone Astray. Preprints 2023, 2023120788. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202312.0788.v1 Šoša, I.; Perković, M. Postmortem Gone Astray. Preprints 2023, 2023120788. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202312.0788.v1
Abstract
Premortem clinical diagnoses and postmortem autopsy findings do not match throughout history. These clinicopathological discrepancies are expected to be raised during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic due to increased pressure on healthcare. At the same time, autopsies and clinicopathological discrepancies accurately display the quality of the healthcare system. To assess that, we examined the relevant works of literature according to the PRISMA-based protocol. As discrepancy rate changes in the correlation to the length of stay in the hospital, we also checked whether studies with patients from the intensive care unit (ICU) differed in discrepancies significantly. We found overall risk differences pretty much alike in "pre-COVID" and "during the pandemic" groups of studies. Based on that, we concluded that healthcare quality did not drop significantly during the pandemic. Be it as it may, the pandemic exposed some shortcomings in mortem healthcare regarding consensus to the autopsy, organ retention, burial, and the postponed burial or the digitalization of post mortem healthcare. All of these issues should be addressed in the future.
Keywords
autopsy; discrepancy; post mortem healthcare
Subject
Medicine and Pharmacology, Medicine and Pharmacology
Copyright: This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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