[Reasons why the quality of medico-legal autopsy in the medical tangle varies from two areas]

Abstract

Objective: To study reasons that the quality of medico-legal autopsy in the medical tangle varies from different area.

Methods: Collecting the cases of medical tangle in two medico-legal agencies, then counting percent of classes on the ten key-points, analyzing the data of the cases by chi-square test and t-test.

Results: It is indicated that the applied methods and standards of the two agencies are different. There are more different in seven keypoint of medicolegal autopsy by chi-square test.

Conclusion: Six key-points are found to be more important to medico-legal appraiser, standardization of forensic autopsy, standardization of picking up specimen from the body, diagnosis standardization of the cause of death, consultation system and standardization of writing documents on medico-legal autopsy.