Source Evaluation Worksheet: Medicolegal Investigations

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Source Evaluation Worksheet: Medicolegal Investigations

Part I: Topic (Medicolegal Investigations)

Medicolegal investigations commonly referred to as death investigation is the process whereby death investigation examine the body of a dead person seeking to understand how and why the individual died. After investigation, physicians will be able to tell the identity of the deceased, date of death, place of incidence, medical cause and the means (accidents, natural cause or any other). An officially appointed individual performs a death examination. The investigation system involves coroners, medical examiners or a combination of coroners and medical examiners. The role of coroner and medical examiners is to determine the scope and course of a death investigation, which encompasses body examination, deciding whether to perform an ordering x-ray, autopsy, toxicology or laboratory tests. The death investigation is carried out in three distinct stages, including examination, correlation, and interpretation; each stage of investigation requires specific inputs and may require...