METHODOLOGICAL RECOMMENDATIONS FOR THE FINAL COMPARISON OF THE CLINICAL AND PATHOLOGICAL / FORENSIC DIAGNOSES

Abstract

The Guidelines for comparing the final clinical and pathological / forensic diagnoses are a joint work of the working group of professional non-profit medical associations – the Russian society of pathologists and the Association of forensic experts, placed in the information system of the Ministry of health of the Russian Federation «Electronic rubric of clinical recommendations’ in the section «Guidelines». Presents the guidelines contain structured information on issues between final clinical and postmortem / forensic medical diagnosis: lists the terms and definitions, describes the rules for mapping of diagnoses and recommendations for determining the cause and category of a divergence of diagnoses, recommendations for the design of the matching results for further diagnoses of clinical-expert work. The purpose of the guidelines is the formation of uniform requirements for the rules of comparison of the final clinical and pathological / forensic diagnoses.