Life-threatening danger assessments of penetrating injuries in Eastern Danish clinical forensic medicine.

ABSTRACT: Clinical forensic assessments of injuries' life-threatening danger may have an impact on the legal aftermath following a violent assault. The pursuit of evidence-based guidelines should ensure a user-independent and reproducible forensic practice. However, does it? The aim of this study was to evaluate the forensic life-threatening danger assessments after a protocol implementation in 2016. The evaluation concerned usability and reproducibility of the protocol, and its influence on assessment severity. We analyzed the level of inter- and intra-rater agreement using 169 blinded, prior-protocol cases that were reassessed by two forensic specialists. We compared assessment made the year before and after protocol implementation (n = 262), and the forensic specialists' reassessments with the pr

SUBMITTER: Jakobsen LS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8036202 | biostudies-literature | 2021 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature