TY  - JOUR
PY  - 1998//
TI  - Autopsy before cremation--formality without efficacy?
JO  - Archiv für Kriminologie
A1  - Brinkmann, B.
A1  - Karger, B.
A1  - Barz, J.
A1  - Kleiber, M.
A1  - Schröpfer, D.
A1  - Staak, M.
SP  - 129
EP  - 136
VL  - 201
IS  - 5-6
N2  - A multicentre study involving 36 out of 38 German medico-legal Institutes discovered 784 non-natural fatalities among 78,000 external examinations before cremation (1%) in 1995. These included 169 accidents, 16 suicides, 3 homicides and 589 deaths in connection with medical treatment. In the remaining 7 cases, a belated differentiation between homicide and accident was not successful. A linear projection results in 1980 non-natural fatalities among all 197,000 external examinations before cremation. This number includes 8 homicides but due to considerable inhomogeneities, a number of 40 homicides appears to be realistic. Consequently, abolishing the mandatory external examination before cremation would be equivalent to an official renouncement of solving relevant non-natural deaths. In case of a thorough external examination, a total of 18,000 non-natural fatalities including approximately 180 homicides could be detected per year during the first external examinations (n = 885,000).<p /> <p>Language: de</p>
LA  - de
SN  - 0003-9225
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -