[How to increase the necropsy rate in hospital?]

The autopsy serves to identify the causes of a patient's death. For some years it is undergoing an important decline but nevertheless the post-mortem examination remains one of the basic tools for the assessment of medical care. The aim of this paper is to detect the reasons for the decline of this practice, to review the contribution of autopsy to medicine and to analyze the effects of physicians training at the request of autopsy to boost this practice.