ArticleVirchows Archiv : an international journal of pathology2015
The clinico-pathological conference, based upon Giovanni Battista Morgagni's legacy, remains of fundamental importance even in the era of the vanishing autopsy.
Article in Virchows Archiv : an international journal of pathology, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
13 citing papers in PubMed.
- Accident-related deaths in the geriatric population: the role of chronic diseases and forensic investigations.BMC geriatrics · 2025Article
- From Cadavers to Soundwaves: The Evolution of Autopsy in Medical Diagnosis and the Rise of Point-of-Care Ultrasound.Cureus · 2025Review
- Enhancing clinical reasoning skills through tailored CPC in pathology laboratory instruction.Frontiers in medicine · 2025Article
- The need for mandatory autopsy teaching in Forensic Medicine for medical students.Autopsy & case reports · 2024Article
- Cause of death and the autopsy rate in an elderly population.Virchows Archiv : an international journal of pathology · 2023Article
- Autopsy in the era of advanced cardiovascular imaging.European heart journal · 2022Review
- Code of practice for medical autopsies: a minimum standard position paper for pathology departments performing medical (hospital) autopsies in adults.Virchows Archiv : an international journal of pathology · 2022Article
- Code of practice for medical autopsies: a minimum standard position paper for pathology departments performing medical (hospital) autopsies in adults.Virchows Archiv : an international journal of pathology · 2022Article
- Clinico-pathological correlation: Teaching aspects, avenues, and advances.Journal of advances in medical education & professionalism · 2022Article
- Feasibility of postmortem examination in the era of COVID-19 pandemic: the experience of a Northeast Italy University Hospital.Virchows Archiv : an international journal of pathology · 2020Article
- Giovanni Battista Morgagni (1682-1771).Journal of neurology · 2016Article
- The medical autopsy as quality assurance tool in clinical medicine: dreams and realities.Virchows Archiv : an international journal of pathology · 2016Article
- The pedagogical value of autopsy.Autopsy & case reportsArticle
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
4 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Walter Cannon and Richard Cabot inaugurated the clinico-pathological conference (CPC) at Harvard Medical School at the beginning of the twentieth century, but this approach to anatomo-clinical correlation was first introduced by Giovanni Battista Morgagni at the University of Padua in the eighteenth century. The CPC consists of the presentation of a clinical case, in which past and recent medical histories of the patient, with all relevant information about laboratory tests including biopsy results, therapy and, eventually in a fatal case, the autopsy, are discussed. This is done for an audience of trainees and all physicians involved in the care for the patient. The CPC is still in use in many academic hospitals, as a teaching tool not only for undergraduate and graduate medical trainees, but also for postgraduate continuous medical education, in spite of the progressively declining autopsy rate. CPCs represent the ideal occasion for fruitful discussion between the two "souls" of medicine, i.e., the clinical, with its focus on the patient, and the pathological, with its focus on understanding disease. To discontinue using them would be equal to denying that modern medicine originated in Morgagni's method.
Indexed as
Identifiers
25989714What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.