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Analysis of physician attitudes concerning requests for autopsy.
Cancer Investigation 1994
To quantify the role of failure to request consent as a determinant of the autopsy rate, questionnaires asking whether an autopsy had been requested and the reasons for that decision were distributed to primary physicians after each death in a consecutive series of 75 patient deaths. Autopsies were requested in only 56% of cases. Common reasons to request an autopsy included unanswered medical questions (37%), medical education (22%), research protocol participation (16%), or routine policy (14%). When autopsies were not requested, the most common reason was the belief that there were no outstanding medical questions (64%). Follow-up interviews with 14 oncologists and hematologists revealed that 8 generally request autopsies (usually to contribute to medical education or to discover unexpected findings) and 6 generally do not (usually because no unexpected findings are anticipated). Attempts to increase the current low autopsy rate should address the question of when and why physicians are willing to request this procedure.
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