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1. Introduction
4. Pre-ICU care
7. ICU admission
10. Record quality
2. Method
5. Patient observations
8. Patients who died
11. Pathology
3. Data overview
6. Referral process
9. Outreach
12. References
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11. Pathology
Key findings
Introduction
Autopsy rate
Age of cases
Clinical history
External descriptions
of the cadaver
Body measurements
Full or limited autopsy
Cerebral pathology
Hypoxic encephalopathy
Description of internal organs
Histopathology sampling
Clinico-pathological correlation
ONS cause of death
Cirrhosis
MRSA infection
Overall scores
Mortality and morbidity meetings
The purpose of autopsies
Recommendations
Age of cases
The median age of the patients autopsied was 65 years (range 16-84).