Should the autopsy be allowed to become obsolete?
Elena Ladich, Allen Burke and Renu Virmani
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The rate of autopsy in the USA has fallen to less than 5% of hospital-based deaths. Many factors have contributed to this decline, including the confidence of physicians in new investigative tools for in vivo diagnosis and assessment of disease progression.
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