STATISTICAL STUDY OF MEDICOLEGAL AUTOPSIAS

Abstract

Purpose of this paper: In this article we have analyzed the relationship among clinical variables: age, sex, pathological history of interest of the deceased;medicolegal: initial cause of death, immediate cause of death, origin of death and medicolegal etiology of death, and histological or anatomopathological: anthracosis, arteriosclerosis, congestion, fatty degeneration, edema, emphysema, sclerosis, hemorrhage, inflammation, necrosis and other casual or incidental findings from the study of medicolegal autopsies chosen at random from no Covid-19 victims in pandemic times. Design/methodology/approach: For the analysis of the relationships among the different variables, parametric and non-parametric techniques have been used: t-Student, ANOVA, contingency coefficient and Kruskal-Wallis. Findings: The relationship among these variables has been significant (p-value <= 0.05): Sex-age (0.005), Sex-pathological history (0.000), Sex-immediate cause of death (0.037), Pathological history-initial cause of death (0.036), Pathological history-medicolegal etiology (0.043), Initial cause of death-immediate cause of death (0.000) and Initial cause of death-origin of death (0.000), Immediate cause of death-origin of death (0.000). Research limitations/implications: We intend to expand the study in the future.