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cord-281191-n9gerpwy	Herridge, Margaret S	Autopsy in critical illness: is it obsolete?	2003-09-26		.txt	text/plain	1190	67	50	It will include a brief discussion of selection bias in autopsy studies, the important role autopsy plays in tracking disease prevalence over time, its characterization of newly emerging diseases, its contribution to education and quality control programs, and its role in clinical decision-making. Fernandez-Segoviano and colleagues [4] evaluated 100 consecutive autopsies from patients in a multidisciplinary intensive care unit and noted a discrepancy rate of 22% between premortem and postmortem diagnosis. Blosser and colleagues reported a discrepancy rate of 27% on 41 autopsies from medical intensive care unit patients [5] . Autopsy findings may have important implications for quality control programs in the intensive care unit. Withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment is a frequent mode of death in critically ill bone marrow transplant patients, and end-of-life decision-making is based on clinical data. Discrepancies between clinical and post mortem diagnoses in critically ill patients: an observational study	./cache/cord-281191-n9gerpwy.txt	./txt/cord-281191-n9gerpwy.txt