The Boston Globe, January 2nd, 2006
SIX YEARS AGO, the federal Institute of Medicine deplored the annual toll of 98,000 deaths caused by errors in US hospitals. Since then, progress has been made in some approaches to curbing medical mistakes, but there has been little advance in one of the best correctives: more routine use of autopsies. Autopsies are a low-tech but highly effective way to learn answers to medical puzzles that MRIs and other imaging devices often cannot explain. Until the 1960s, nearly half of all patients who died in hospitals were autopsied, but the rate has fallen below 5 percent now. No campaign to improve ...
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