Forensic Medicine - Standards
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Legal controls of the medical profession.

30 Aug 2009 PURPOSE OF REVIEW: The authors, after a brief historical review of the theme, review the articles published in the last year. The purpose is to verify how the field has moved on during this period, as a constant increase of legal and social controls ... Read more...

Traumatic brain injury and forensic neuropsychology.

27 Feb 2009 As part of a special issue of The Journal of Head Trauma Rehabilitation, forensic neuropsychology is reviewed as it applies to traumatic brain injury (TBI) and other types of acquired brain injury in which clinical neuropsychologists and ... Read more...

Best practice guidelines for forensic neuropsychological examinations of patients with traumatic brain injury.

27 Feb 2009 Forensic examiners generally agree that their contributions to the forensic process have to be based on scientific principles, high ethical values, and sound clinical skills and judgment. In part I, the challenges of maintaining high ethical ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Forensic Medicine - Standards'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Legal controls of the medical profession. 30 Aug 2009
• [Judicial murders and forensic specialists' disclaim of responsibility] 24 Mar 2009
• When our eyes deceive us. 21 Mar 2009
• Traumatic brain injury and forensic neuropsychology. 27 Feb 2009
• Best practice guidelines for forensic neuropsychological examinations of patients with traumatic brain injury. 27 Feb 2009
• Forensic neuropsychological evaluations in an academic medical center. 27 Feb 2009
• Science and the law. Forensic science needs a major overhaul, panel says. 25 Feb 2009
• Online survey of current autopsy practice. 19 Jan 2009
• [The III Inter-regional Scientific and Practical Conference of the Association of Non-commercial Forensic Medical Institutions, "Forensic medical expertise of cadaver in Federal Forensic Medical Institutions of Health Care Administrative Organs of Southern Federal District of the Russian Federation: organisation, problems and ways of improvements.", Kislovodsk, 24-25 January, 2008] 30 Oct 2008
• [Life-threatening conditions: medico-legal opinions in the materials from the Congress of Forensic Medicine, Krakow, 11-12 September, 2006] 29 Sep 2008
• The status of forensic medicine in India. 29 Sep 2008
• Criteria for validation of methods in microbial forensics. 23 Jul 2008
• [Time characteristics of experts' work] 29 Jun 2008
• [Whole-genome amplification by MDA to improve sensitivity of forensic expert examination of chromosomal DNA] 29 Jun 2008
• Criteria for age estimation in living individuals. 10 Jun 2008
• [Expert testimony in the Torgersen case mislead the court] 10 Jun 2008
• [Recommendations on medical legal lesions reports] Jun 2008
• Scientific and forensic standards for homologous blood transfusion anti-doping analyses. 31 May 2008
• [The scientific conference of forensic experts of the South Federal Region of Russia "The criteria of expert evaluation of craniocerebral injury in alive individuals"] 29 Apr 2008
• [Organization forms of St. Petersburg State Establishment of Healthcare "Bureau of Forensic-Medical Expertise" in 1918-1927] 29 Apr 2008

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Technical information about 'Forensic Medicine'

Definition: The application of medical knowledge to questions of law.

Descriptor UI: D005554

Alternative terms: Forensic Medicine; Medicine, Forensic; Medicine, Legal; Legal Medicine;

Related Mesh Headings: Law Enforcement;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; economics; education; history; instrumentation; legislation & jurisprudence; manpower; methods; organization & administration; standards; trends; statistics & numerical data; ethics;

Tree Number: H02.403.330; I01.198.780.937;

Online Note: use FORENSIC MEDICINE & FORENSIC DENTISTRY to search CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION 1966-74

History Note: 65; CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION was see under FORENSIC DENTISTRY & FORENSIC MEDICINE 1965-74; was heading 1963-64

Technical Notes: for crime or identification: differentiate from JURISPRUDENCE, usually civil suits; for human identification of skeletal remains HUMAN IDENTIFICATION see FORENSIC ANTHROPOLOGY is available; for human identification by teeth see FORENSIC DENTISTRY; note other specific forensic terms are also available DF: FORENSIC MED