TY - JOUR T1 - Surveillance of injury-related deaths: medicolegal autopsy rates and trends in Finland JF - Injury Prevention JO - Inj Prev SP - 282 LP - 284 DO - 10.1136/ip.2006.012922 VL - 13 IS - 4 AU - Philippe Lunetta AU - Anne Lounamaa AU - Sanna Sihvonen Y1 - 2007/08/01 UR - http://injuryprevention.bmj.com/content/13/4/282.abstract N2 - Medicolegal autopsies are a vital tool for obtaining reliable injury mortality data. In Finland, medicolegal autopsies have increased from 13.6% of all deaths in 1970 to 23.8% in 2004. In fact, medicolegal autopsies are performed in 87.2% of all unintentional injury deaths, 98.3% of homicides and 99.5% of suicides. Finland has exceedingly high medicolegal autopsy rates compared with other countries. Autopsy rates should be appropriately considered when performing international comparisons of injury-related deaths. ER -