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Alfred Angrist, MD
Medical Society of The State of New York Lake Success

JAMA. 1973;224(6):905.

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To the Editor.—

With the renewed stress now being given to the patient and to medical practice, its clinical teaching and to continuing education, to peer review and the Professional Standards Review Organization, and evaluation and judgment of adequacy of care, it would seem that there would be a new interest in the telltale final analytical autopsy. The appeal of John Prutting, MD, is not for an arbitrary minimal low or high percentage of autopsies done in a perfunctory, "halfhearted manner for percentage sake." The quality of the performance of each autopsy is as critical as the total number done or the percentage of deaths examined. The point is that the Accreditation Commission can evaluate this aspect of performance by the examination of autopsy records, their use in mortality and other conferences, and in Clinical Pathological Conferences. This can be determined more easily than many other less tangible aspects of . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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