TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2007//
TI  - Surveillance of injury-related deaths: medicolegal autopsy rates and trends in Finland
JO  - Injury prevention
A1  - Lunetta, P.
A1  - Lounamaa, Anne
A1  - Sihvonen, Sanna
SP  - 282
EP  - 284
VL  - 13
IS  - 4
N2  - Medicolegal autopsies are a vital tool for obtaining reliable injury mortality data. In Finland, medicolegal autopsies have increased from 13.6% of all deaths in 1970 to 23.8% in 2004. In fact, medicolegal autopsies are performed in 87.2% of all unintentional injury deaths, 98.3% of homicides and 99.5% of suicides. Finland has exceedingly high medicolegal autopsy rates compared with other countries. Autopsy rates should be appropriately considered when performing international comparisons of injury-related deaths.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 1353-8047
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/ip.2006.012922
ID  - ref1
ER  -