[An analysis of the diagnostic errors in polyclinic patients who have died at home based on pathologicoanatomic...

A statistical analysis of the main causes of death and assessment of the quality of outpatient diagnosis have been performed on the basis of 1843 autopsies of patients who died at home. The causes of misdiagnosis were due in 5.3% of cases to objective and in 94.7% of cases to subjective factors. The criteria of three categories of discrepancy between pathological and outpatient diagnosis are suggested. A positive role of a pathological examination as an additional factor in improving the quality of the outpatient service is shown.