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Impact of Post-mortem PCR Testing on Lead Time of the Medico-legal Death Investigation. A Retrospective Study During the COVID-19 Pandemic in a Tertiary Care Hospital in Sri Lanka Cover

Impact of Post-mortem PCR Testing on Lead Time of the Medico-legal Death Investigation. A Retrospective Study During the COVID-19 Pandemic in a Tertiary Care Hospital in Sri Lanka

Medico-Legal Journal of Sri Lanka
Volume 11 (2023): Issue 2
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Open Access
|Dec 2023
Authors

Authors

H. D. S. C. P. Appuhamy

prasannaappuhamy@yahoo.com

District General Hospital, Matale

R. Samaranayake

ravindras@fortox.cmb.ac.lk

University of Colombo

S. Manjika

situm_manjika2000@yahoo.com

University of Sri Jayewardenepura
DOI: https://doi.org/10.4038/mljsl.v11i2.7484 | Journal eISSN: 2012-5887
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Language: English
Page range: 9 - 14
Published on: Dec 28, 2023
Published by: College of Forensic Pathologists of Sri Lanka
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Keywords:
Deaths during COVID-19,
The lead time of autopsy,
The lead time of PCR testing,
Excess mortality,
Institutional policies governing autopsies,
Post-mortem detection for SARS-CoV-2

© 2023 H. D. S. C. P. Appuhamy, R. Samaranayake, S. Manjika, published by College of Forensic Pathologists of Sri Lanka
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

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