What is it about?
The study aimed to evaluate in medical records the death certificates of the years 2009 and 2011, in the database, and the difficulties of the medical clinical staff to fill them in.
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Why is it important?
From the 34 clinical physicians who answered the questionnaire, 34.14% reported that deaths without medical assistance constitute the major difficulty in filling the document.
Perspectives
it is inferred the need to improve the teaching during the undergraduate course about death certificate.
Dr. Elcio Luiz Bonamigo
Universidade do Oeste de Santa Catarina
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This page is a summary of: Declaração de óbito: preenchimento pelo corpo clínico de um hospital universitário, Revista Bioética, August 2014, FapUNIFESP (SciELO),
DOI: 10.1590/1983-80422014222013.
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