[Uniform autopsy record summaries]

Clinico-pathological comparisons are a mean to evaluate medical care that remains still rarely automated. They are confronted to obstacles linked to the automation of medical records. There are problems of volume, comparability and availability of informations as well as difficulties to generate diagnostic hypotheses from a mass of raw data. In order to solve these problems, it is proposed to use a uniform autopsy record summary with standardized methods for data selection, coding systems and evaluation of care.