Record Low Autopsy Rates in the US: Why It Matters and What It Reveals

The autopsy complaint successful 2020 reached a grounds debased of 7.4 percent, marking the lowest complaint betwixt 1972 and 2020, according to a precocious released caller study by the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), a subagency nether the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) (pdf). In 1972, the autopsy complaint stood astatine 19.1 percent, but it has since experienced a dependable decline. The diminution successful autopsy rates hitti...