The rules of clinical and pathological analysis of lethal outcomes during post mortem autopsy

Abstract

The article presents the main principles of clinical and pathological analysis at the present stage, unification of approaches to which is a necessary condition for obtaining reliable information on the causes of death in the Russian Federation. As a result of this analysis, the cause and mechanism of death, the features of tanatogenesis, the defects in the provision of medical care and their causes should be established, the information about which should be included in the clinicopathoanatomical epicrisis. It is also advisable to determine the preventability in each case of death, assigning it to the groups of preventable causes A, B, C and calculating the index of preventability of lethal outcomes. The final judgment on the existing defects in the provision of medical care, their causes, predictability or the unavoidability of death should be collegial and be adopted at the meetings of the subcommittee of the medical commission for the study of deaths, the treatment and control commission and the clinico-pathoanatomical conference.