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      Correlação diagnóstica anatomoclínica. Aferição retrospectiva do diagnóstico clínico em necrópsias Translated title: Correlation between anatomo-clinical diagnosis and retrospective assessment of clinical diagnosis in post mortms

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          Analisaram-se retrospectivamente 200 necrópsias, correlacionando-se os diagnósticos clínicos e anatomopatológicos. Foram consideradas 20 entidades nosológicas para confronto. Os diagnósticos não formulados em vida, embora observados na necrópsia (falso negativo), e que apresentaram os maiores percentuais em relação aos respectivos totais de achados necroscópicos, foram: pielonefrite aguda (100%), embolia pulmonar (87,50%), aneurisma dissecante da aorta (66,66%) e broncopneumonia (58,16%). Os diagnósticos formulados em vida que não tiveram confirmação pela necrópsia (falso positivo), e que apresentaram os maiores percentuais em relação aos respectivos totais dos diagnósticos clínicos, foram: tuberculose (69,50%), paracoccidioidomicose (57,14%), septicemia (53,13%) e doença de Chagas (44,44%). Houve concordância diagnóstica em 97 (48,50%) dos 200 casos. Em 19 (9,50%) deles o desacordo diagnóstico, se antes verificado, poderia ter implicado alterações do prognóstico. Enfatiza-se a importância da necrópsia para uma adequada correlação anatomoclínica e discute-se os achados em relação a estudos prévios.

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          The post mortem findings in 200 autopsies were compared with the clinical diagnoses. Twenty diseases were analysed with respect to clinico-pathological correlation. In relation to the respective totals the diseases most frequently missed clinically were (false negative) pyelonephrites (100%), pulmonary embolus (87.50%) and bronchopneumonia (58.16%). In relation to the respective totals the clinical diagnoses less frequently confirmed (false positive) were tuberculosis (69.56%), paracoccidioidomycosis (57.14%), sepsis (53.13%) and Chagas'disease (44.44%). There was clinico-pathological agreement in 97 autopsies (48.50%). In 19 cases (9.50%) if the diagnostic error had been detected during life this probably would have changes the prognosis. The findings are discussed in the light of previous studies. The importance of routine post-mortem examination and clinico-pathological correlation is stressed.

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          The autopsy as a measure of accuracy of the death certificate.

          To determine the extent of agreement on underlying cause of death between death certificates and autopsy reports, we analyzed 272 randomly selected autopsy reports and corresponding death certificates from among all such data on autopsies performed in Connecticut in 1980. In 29 per cent of the deaths, a major disagreement on the underlying cause of death led to reclassification of the death in a different International Classification of Diseases major disease category. In an additional 26 per cent, the death certificate and autopsy report agreed on the major disease category but attributed the death to a different specific disease. Deaths due to neoplasms were most accurately diagnosed, with a sensitivity of 87 per cent and a positive predictive value of 85 per cent. Deaths resulting from diseases of the respiratory or digestive system were associated with the highest rates of disagreement. Diseases most commonly overdiagnosed were circulatory disorders, ill-defined conditions, and respiratory diseases. Diseases most commonly underdiagnosed as the cause of death on the death certificate were specific traumatic conditions and gastrointestinal disorders. The autopsy remains an important method for ensuring the quality of mortality statistics.
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            Factors influencing discrepancies between premortem and postmortem diagnoses.

            A study of 2067 autopsies collected from 32 university and community hospitals of various sizes located throughout the United States showed the rate of discrepancies between premortem and postmortem diagnoses to be influenced by the type and size of hospital, the age and sex of the patient, and the disease responsible for the patient's death. Of equivocal or no influence were the length of the terminal hospitalization, the degree of clinical involvement in the case of the person responsible for establishing the discrepancy level, and the autopsy rate, at least as it applies to community hospitals.
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              Diagnostic yield of the autopsy in a university hospital and a community hospital.

              To determine the extent to which autopsies yield unexpected findings that are relevant to the patient's death and whether cases with a high yield of such findings can be identified selectively, we studied a total of 233 autopsies at a university hospital and at a community hospital. The rates at which autopsies detected major unexpected findings whose premortem diagnosis would probably have improved survival were 11 percent at the university hospital and 12 percent at the community hospital. Major unexpected findings whose premortem diagnosis would not have prolonged survival were found in another 12 and 21 percent of cases, respectively. Pulmonary embolism and fungal infections in immuno-compromised hosts were the most common major unexpected findings. Neither we nor the patients' physicians were able to identify from the clinical data the autopsies likely to have high yields. Furthermore, the physicians' estimates of an autopsy's expected yield were similar for patients evaluated by autopsy and for matched patients who were not. We conclude that the autopsy continues to yield clinically relevant findings at a high level and that it is not currently possible to predict which cases will have high yields. Autopsies are vital to ensure the quality of medical care, and autopsy rates must be increased substantially if this role is to be fully realized.
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                Journal
                rsp
                Revista de Saúde Pública
                Rev. Saúde Pública
                Faculdade de Saúde Pública da Universidade de São Paulo (São Paulo, SP, Brazil )
                0034-8910
                1518-8787
                August 1989
                : 23
                : 4
                : 285-291
                Affiliations
                [02] Campinas SP orgnameUniversidade Estadual de Campinas orgdiv1Faculdade de Ciências Médicas orgdiv2Departamento de Medicina Complementar Brasil
                [01] Brasília DF orgnameUniversidade de Brasília orgdiv1Faculdade de Ciências da Saúde orgdiv2Departamento de Medicina Complementar Brasil
                Article
                S0034-89101989000400003 S0034-8910(89)02300403
                1c917dbe-a1f5-43b8-bed9-239af01bd1d8

                This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

                History
                : 05 April 1989
                : 24 April 1989
                : 20 September 1988
                Page count
                Figures: 0, Tables: 0, Equations: 0, References: 42, Pages: 7
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                Autopsy,Diagnostic error,Evaluation,Diagnóstico,Autópsia,Erros de diagnóstico,Avaliação,Diagnosis

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