Establishing Guidelines for Coronial Best Practice Use of Internal Autopsy

去年在昆士兰州进行了2700次验尸，花费了530万美元。 除经济成本外，其他相关问题包括合格人员少、公共卫生风险以及与内部尸检相关的文化和宗教敏感性。传闻证据表明，对于其中一些死亡，没有必要进行内部尸检来确定死因或死亡情况。 这项研究的目的是建立指导方针，使验尸官能够在下令进行内部尸检之前权衡所有证据来源，目的是减少不必要的内部尸检的数量（以及相关的成本，风险和对家庭的痛苦），而不影响死因和死亡情况的调查结果。

Last year in Queensland 2700 Coronial internal autopsies were conducted at a cost of $5.3 million. In addition to the economic cost, other relevant concerns include few qualified personnel, public health risks, and cultural and religious sensitivities associated with internal autopsy. Anecdotal evidence suggests that for a number of these deaths, the internal autopsy was not necessary to establish cause or circumstance of death. The purpose of this research is to create guidelines to enable coroners to weight all sources of evidence before ordering internal autopsies The purpose is to decrease the number (and associated costs, risks and distress to families) of unnecessary internal autopsies being performed without compromising the finding as to cause and circumstance of death.