Intra-Hospital Deceases Turned into Medico-Legal Cases

Abstract

The clinical and implicitly medico-legal casuistry show that a number of deceases, having occurred during the hospitalization, enter the suspicious-death category; in this cause the medico-legal autopsy is required, at the prosecuting bodies’ written solicitation. In order to prevent the dysfunctions, which might lead to the disappearance of important events in determining the juridical truth in the cause, a close collaboration between the clinical and medico-legal institutions is necessary, based on the legislation afferent to this set of issues.