Response Biases and the Impact of Psychological Autopsies on Medical Examiners' Determination of Mode of Death - Centre for Suicide PreventionCentre for Suicide Prevention

Year: 1984 Source: Annual Meeting of the American Association of Suicidology, (17th: 1984: Anchorage, Alaska), p.52-54 SIEC No: 19850344

A panel discussion conducted during the 17th Annual Meeting of the AAS, May 2-5, 1984. Ten cases were sent to 400 practising medical examiners; a total of 195 were returned. Results indicated the psychological autopsy had significant impact on the medical examiners subjects determination of mode of death. (note: this is a summary of the original presentation)(NBB)

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Response Biases and the Impact of Psychological Autopsies on Medical Examiners’ Determination of Mode of Death

Jobes D A~~Berman A L