ReviewJournal of medical toxicology : official journal of the American College of Medical Toxicology2017
From Death to Death Certificate: What do the Dead say?
Review in Journal of medical toxicology : official journal of the American College of Medical Toxicology, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.
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- Methadone-involved overdose deaths in urban and rural communities before and after the public health emergency flexibilities for methadone take-home doses.Drug and alcohol dependence reports · 2025Article
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- Intracranial haemorrhage and falls: cause or effect?Irish journal of medical science · 2023Article
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- Ethyl glucuronide and ethyl sulfate: a review of their roles in forensic toxicology analysis of alcohol postmortem.Forensic toxicology · 2022Review
- Unnatural-cause mortality patterns of Northern Finnish men and women diverge in adolescence - A 52-year follow-up.Preventive medicine reports · 2021Article
- Methodological Complexities in Quantifying Rates of Fatal Opioid-Related Overdose.Current epidemiology reports · 2019Review
- Who is legally responsible for deaths caused by air pollution?International journal of biometeorology · 2018Article
- From Death to Death Certificate: a Call for Preventing Autopsy from Dying.Journal of medical toxicology : official journal of the American College of Medical Toxicology · 2017Article
- Drug Overdose Surveillance and Information Sharing via a Public Database: The Role of the Medical Examiner/Coroner.Academic forensic pathology · 2017Review
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Abstract
This is an overview of medicolegal death investigation and death certification. Postmortem toxicological analysis, particularly for ethanol and drugs of abuse, plays a large role in the forensic investigation of natural and unnatural deaths. Postmortem drug concentrations must be interpreted in light of the autopsy findings and circumstances. Interpretations of drug and ethanol concentrations are important for death certification, but they also may be important for other stakeholders such as police, attorneys, public health practitioners, and the next-of-kin.
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