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8615396

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
5
pubmed:dateCreated
1996-6-6
pubmed:abstractText
The authors set out to evaluate the use of the autopsy in an urban public teaching hospital setting during the AIDS era. Demographic and length of hospital stay data were obtained from weekly mortality review reports on all patients dying on the medicine service between 1/1/92 and 12/31/93. Clinical and autopsy diagnoses were compared for those patients who had autopsies. The autopsy rate was 16% (152/974). Significant, unsuspected diagnoses were found in 35% (53/152) of the cases, with infections, pulmonary emboli, and myocardial infarctions being most common. Human immunodeficiency virus-infected patients had a greater percentage of unsuspected findings (55%, 23/42), and many of these also were from an infectious etiology. The authors conclude that valuable, unsuspected information frequently can be obtained from autopsies in this clinical setting.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
AIM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
May
pubmed:issn
0002-9629
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
311
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
215-20
pubmed:dateRevised
2004-11-17
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1996
pubmed:articleTitle
Unanticipated diagnoses found at autopsy in an urban public teaching hospital.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas 77030, USA.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article