Autopsy rates in the Netherlands: 35 years of decline.
Although the autopsy still is a valuable tool in health statistics, health care quality control, medical education, and biomedical research, autopsy rates have been declining worldwide. The aim of this study was to examine trends of overall, clinical and forensic autopsy rates among adults in the Ne...
Main Authors: | Britt M Blokker, Annick C Weustink, M G Myriam Hunink, J Wolter Oosterhuis |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2017-01-01
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Series: | PLoS ONE |
Online Access: | http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5472266?pdf=render |
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