Autopsy rate in younger and older hospitalized patients

A retrospective study of the autopsy rate of the clinico-pathological correlations was made in a group of inpatients. The trend of autopsy rate was observed in all impatients died in a university hospital during a nine year period (from 1975 to 1983). The agreement between the clinical and pathological death diagnosis was retrospectively controlled in 294 consecutive patients died and submitted to autopsy in the same hospital during a 6 month period (from January to June 1983).