Originally shared by American Scientist
Autopsy has a long history and remains the gold standard for arriving at an unequivocal assessment of the diseases and traumas that affect individuals and populations. Yet its future is somewhat uncertain.
The autopsy rate in the years leading up to the 1950s held steady at over 50 percent, but in the years since, the autopsy rate for all hospital deaths has collapsed to a present-day estimate of six percent.
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