Steinar Aase

09.04.2013: Appropriate diagnostics and good health care do not end when the patient dies, but when the final diagnosis has been made clear We have long been aware that death certificates are prone to errors (1) –  (3). Glattre & Blix (1) found errors in every fourth death certificate examined. Alfsen and...

24.01.2012: Since antiquity, autopsies have been important for our understanding of the anatomy of the human body and how it changes as an effect of disease. Here in Norway, we know that autopsies were undertaken in Christiania and Bergen as early as the 18th century. The first known Norwegian autopsy report...