[4Zoltan]

Under a new statistical gathering method called “meaningful use” that been around since 2012, hospitals are required to list “preliminary cause of death” in the electronic medical record. They actually have a specific field for it.

This memo for St Peter’s Hospital in Albany New York explained their use of “preliminary cause of death”

“As part of meaningful use requirements the preliminary cause of death must be captured in the electronic medical record. The preliminary cause of death is the initial diagnosis given at the time of death. This is not the final determination that is documented on the death certificate and does not need to be the same. This does not replace the death certificate documentation.”

https://www.sphcs.org/workfiles/Physicians/MD_memo_MU.pdf

[ethical]

This is not what the medical examiner in Hawaii did.You are denying the record of what actually happened for the protocol some hospital does for patients who died in hospital. Totally different that an accident victim. Read the article. An autopsy was performed at 7:00am, the preliminary cause of death was reported by the Detective, Deputy Coroner, at 10:28 am. AFTER the autopsy folks. It seems like you did not read the article or review the documents attached to it, or read the citations.

[butterdezillion]

Totally irrelevant. Detective Winfrey is not a hospital, and his “preliminary cause of death” was AFTER the autopsy and was preliminary because it was pendinq the FINAL autopsy report and tox results.