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Showing 1 to 20 of 80 for “"medico legal"”.
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Medical record-keeping in South Africa : a medico-legal perspective
… & Williams, 2003:329). Medical records are also medico-legal documents. They are used to defend doctors against legal action and also to inform expert medical opinions in the case of medico-legal litigation. Therefore, good medical record keeping is of paramount importance (Van den Heever & …
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Examining external morphological characteristics of Lucilia sericata pupae for age estimation in medico-legal investigations
… play an essential role in the resolution of medico-legal investigations. For various insects, like necrophagous flies, it is vital for their survival to find and inhabit a food source such as a decomposing body. This makes it possible to use these insects as evidence in medico-legal …
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Role played by insects in the destruction of the dead body : and its medico-legal application
One will easily recognise that we have a certain basis upon which we are enabled to determine the age of an exhumed corpse up to the third year. The presence or absence of the remains of the first workers enables us to determine the season at which interment took place
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A medico-legal study of infant mortality in Kuwait from 2003 to 2006: A retrospective study
… between 2003 and 2006. There were 220 reported medico-legal cases of infant deaths during the study period. They constituted 12.5% of the overall infant mortality figures in Kuwait (220/1760 deaths). There were more reported medico-legal cases of deaths among Kuwaiti infants (129; 58.6%) …
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Firearm fatalities examined at Salt River medico-legal laboratory in 1999 and their investigative outcome by 2004
The Republic of South Africa has OIle of the most liberal and human rights based constitutions wor1dWlde, with a very idealistic vision of individual freedom, alleviation of poverty access to education and health care and safety Many of the ideals are In direct redress of the previous regime, where …
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A Retrospective, Observational Study of Medico-legal Cases against Obstetricians and Gynaecologists in South Africa's Private Sector
South Africa is experiencing a medico-legal crisis that is threatening the delivery of essential health care services, especially relating to maternal and fetal health. In the private sector, professional indemnity premiums for obstetricians to provide insurance cover in the event of medico-legal …
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Firearm fatalities examined at Salt River Medico-Legal Laboratory in 2009 and their investigative outcome by 2014
… of firearm deaths of 1999 in the Salt River Medico - Legal Laboratory drainage area. There were some compelling results, including a remarkably low conviction rate of 7.21%. In 2000 new legislation was enacted, which is the Firearms Control Act (1) of 2000 and from 2001 to 2005 there was a …
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A medico-legal examination of homosexual women and their children : ethical consideration and the role of the clinical psychologist
Past and present legal and medical proscriptions towards female homosexuality were reviewed, and the role of the women's movement and gay liberation organisations were considered in effecting social change. The legal predicaments of homosexual mothers seeking child custody was noted and the …
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Exploring the Medico-legal death scene investigation of sudden unexpected death of infants admitted to Salt River mortuary, Cape Town, South Africa
… some countries, and have shown value in guiding medico-legal examinations. Further, South Africa did not routinely perform DSI for SUDI cases, nor was there a protocol. This was largely attributed to the burden of SUDI cases as well as the lack of resources. Therefore, this study aimed to suggest …
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Death by electrocution: a retrospective analysis of three medico-legal mortuaries in the eThekwini district of KwaZulu Natal from 2006 to 2016.
… challenges plaguing such countries include illegal electricity connections and load shedding. The association of such issues to electrocution deaths have been sparsely explored. There remains a paucity of information regarding electrocution fatalities in South Africa and Africa as a whole. A …
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Multivariate Cluster Analysis of the MMPI-2 and MMPI-2-RF Scales in Spine Pain Patients with Financial Compensation: Characterization and Validation of Chronic Pain Subgroups
… these studies had limited applicability to medico-legal pain populations because they did not use newly developed scales or describe important medico-legal factors that have large effects on symptom endorsement. Using three methods of clustering, the current investigation explored the …
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A pilot study on stature estimation of the South African male population using the post mortem Lodox® Xmplar-dr imaging device at the Salt River Forensic Medico-Legal Laboratory
Identification of deceased individuals is of paramount importance in the South African constitution, with victim identification noted as a human right. Stature has been used to assist identification of an individual when skeletal remains are recovered. The usefulness of stature estimation using …
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Investigating the current scope and potential of forensic entomology in decomposition cases at Salt River Mortuary, Cape Town, South Africa
Decomposition cases form a fraction of the medico-legal cases conducted at Salt River Mortuary (SRM). With prolonged time since death and increased decomposition, entomological evidence becomes increasingly important in the estimation of minimum post-mortem interval. Currently no standard protocol …
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Post-mortem toxicological investigations in a paediatric population
… drugs in infant cases admitted for post-mortem medico-legal examinations,as toxicological investigations are not routinely performed. It was hypothesised that drugs would be detected in sudden and unexpected death ofinfant (SUDI) cases admitted to Salt River Mortuary (SRM), as infantsform a …
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Disease and Illness in Medieval Ireland
… source-types (hagiographical material, annals, medico-legal law texts), it became clear that there were different perspectives on health and healing for this period. Two distinguishing models came to light, a „Christian (religious) explanatory model‟ and a „Naturalistic Model‟. The former model …
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Naming the dead: the identification of the unknown body in England and Wales 1800-1934
… the place of the dead, and personal, social and legal identities. It situates and studies identification procedure within the context of the inquest, but argues that this inquiry was entirely independent to that into the cause and circumstances of death. This thesis examines the ways in which …
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Pathologizing and Criminalizing Intoxication: Addiction, Psychoactive Drugs, and the Ideological Underpinnings of the War on Drugs
… authority of medical science to advance a medico-legal definition of intoxication and addiction based on comparisons between alcohol and opium. The rise of a federal drug control paradigm by the end of the Progressive Era—embodied within the Harrison Act (1914) and Eighteenth Amendment …
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AVIAN SCAVENGING, MUMMIFICATION, AND VARIABLE MICRO-ENVIRONMENTS AS FACTORS AFFECTING THE DECOMPOSITION PROCESS IN WESTERN MONTANA
… a number of partially decomposed cases enter the medico-legal system each year. Thus, greater knowledge about the postmortem period will be a significant contribution to members of the medico-legal community as well as the criminal justice system. In addition, this data could be extended to …
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AVIAN SCAVENGING, MUMMIFICATION, AND VARIABLE MICRO-ENVIRONMENTS AS FACTORS AFFECTING THE DECOMPOSITION PROCESS IN WESTERN MONTANA
… a number of partially decomposed cases enter the medico-legal system each year. Thus, greater knowledge about the postmortem period will be a significant contribution to members of the medico-legal community as well as the criminal justice system. In addition, this data could be extended to …
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