There is little hard data on the quality of medicolegal autopsies in England andWales.
medicolegal in American English
(ˌmedɪkouˈliɡəl)
adjective
pertaining to medicine and law or to forensic medicine
Word origin
[1825–35; medico- + legal]This word is first recorded in the period 1825–35. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: individualism, relativity, runway, self-help, structural
Examples of 'medicolegal' in a sentence
medicolegal
The 2698 (94.7%) medicolegal autopsies were excluded from the study.
D Seleye-Fubara, E N Etebu 2010, 'Correlation between clinincal and autopsy diagnoses in 150 cases seen in Universityof Port Harcourt Teaching Hospital, Port Harcourt', Sahel Medical Journalhttp://www.smjonline.org/article.asp?issn=1118-8561;year=2010;volume=13;issue=2;spage=64;epage=67;aulast=Seleye-Fubara;type=0. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
These findings facilitate choice of treatment, rehabilitation programs, and medicolegal decisions.
Ann-Cathrine Lindblad, Björn Hagerman, Ulf Rosenhall 2011, 'Noise-induced tinnitus: A comparison between four clinical groups without apparenthearing loss', Noise and Healthhttp://www.noiseandhealth.org/article.asp?issn=1463-1741;year=2011;volume=13;issue=55;spage=423;epage=431;aulast=Lindblad. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Retained surgical sponges are seldom reported due to medicolegal implications.
Kamal E. Bani-Hani, Kamal A. Gharaibeh, Rami J. Yagha 2005, 'Retained Surgical Sponges (Gossypiboma)', Asian Journal of Surgeryhttp://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1015958409602736. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
The medicolegal autopsies were excluded from the study.
D Seleye-Fubara, E N Etebu 2011, 'Correlation between clinical and autopsy diagnoses in 150 cases seen in Universityof Port Harcourt Teaching Hospital, Port Harcourt', Sahel Medical Journalhttp://www.smjonline.org/article.asp?issn=1118-8561;year=2011;volume=14;issue=3;spage=161;epage=165;aulast=Seleye-Fubara;type=0. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Dermatoglyphics plays an important role in medicolegal, anthropology, and genetic studies.
Yuliana 2017, 'Practical Application of Dermatoglyphics in Disease Identification', Recent Advances in Biology and Medicinehttps://rabm.scholasticahq.com/article/3170-practical-application-of-dermatoglyphics-in-disease-identification. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
This adverse event can also have serious medicolegal implications.
K Sandhu, HH Dash 2009, 'Awareness During Anaesthesia', Indian Journal of Anaesthesiahttp://www.ijaweb.org/article.asp?issn=0019-5049;year=2009;volume=53;issue=2;spage=148;epage=157;aulast=Sandhu. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
All medicolegal cases received for autopsy are included in the study.
Bidyut Prava Das, Kalyani Prava Gouda, Bikash Ranjan Panda 2017, 'AUTOPSY-BASED STUDY OF SILENT LIVER DISEASES IN MEDICOLEGAL CASES IN A TERTIARY CARECENTRE OF EASTERN ODISHA', Journal of Evidence Based Medicine and Healthcarehttp://www.jebmh.com/data_pdf/Bidyut%20Prava%20Das%20-%202%20-%20FINAL.pdf. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
This can lead to errors in handover of patients and to medicolegal vulnerability.
Khan Zeeshan, Sayers Adele E., Khattak Mohammad Usman, Chambers Iain Richard 2015, 'The TONK score: a tool for assessing quality in trauma and orthopaedic note-keeping',SICOT-Jhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1051/sicotj/2015029. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
A large number of dead bodies are referred to forensic autopsy halls for medicolegal examination.
Jaber Gharehdaghi, Mohammad Hassan Abedi Khorasgani, Mohammad Hassan Ghadiani, AmirMohammad Kazemifar, Hassan Solhi, Sadra Solhi 2017, 'Prevalence of HCV, HBV, and HIV Seropositivity among Cadavers Referred to AutopsyHall of Legal Medicine Bureau of Tehran, Iran', Advances in Preventive Medicinehttp://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2017/2043840. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)