The Pennsylvania Center for Rural PA (CRP) released an in-depth report this week on the state’s medicolegal death investigation system. Bottom line – there isn’t one system. There are 67 different systems, one for every county. Inequitable Death Investigations There are a lot of disturbing findings in the report. This post will look only at…
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Maternal Mortality and the Pregnancy Checkbox
The U.S. has the highest maternal mortality rate among developed countries. All death investigators and certifiers should understand the importance of the pregnancy checkbox on the death certificate.
Death in Custody
Deaths in custody are under-reported and coroners and medical examiners can do something about it.