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The one year study of reasons of rereferrals from judicial authorities to legal medicine centers in Hamadan Legal Medicine Center in 2006-2007
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Abstract: (19658 Views) |
| Background & Aims: Prolongation of procedure is one of the problems which the judiciary confront with it. A part of prolongation of procedure may due to examination and certification in legal medicine centers. The present study is conducted to assess this part of prolongation of procedure with the aim of reducing the unnecessary & frequent referrals from judicial authority system to legal medicine centers by analyzing the causes of rereferrals from judicial authority to legal medicine centers.
Materials & Methods: This is a cross sectional descriptive study which is done on 450 cases of rereferral from judicial authority to legal medicine centers during one year from march 2006 to march 2007. The data collected by a questionnaire and analyzed by SPSS software .
Findings: The resulting data showed that, the main Reason of rereferral was a problem due to claimant by her/himself (in 175 cases or 38.9%). Also in 118 cases (26.2%) a neglect or defect in legal medicine center caused the rereferral and 157 cases (34.9%) a problem or misunderstanding via judicial authoritys was the responsible cause of rereferral. In first category, the main causes were complaining of pain in some part of the body, need for reexamination, protest from the initial certificate and uncooperation in process of examination or paraclinical investigations, respectively. Among the problems in legal medicine center, mistakes in writing the certificates was the leading cause (78% of cases). In category related to judicial authorityies, the leading cause was inaccurate reading of certificate, which cause misunderstanding in 54.1% of cases .
Conclusion: With regarding to this study, we claim that major causes of rereferral from judicial authorities to legal medicine centers are avoidable by methods such as more attention to writ the certificate in legal medicine centers and certain educational curriculums for judges and their coworkers. |
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| Keywords: Rereferral, Legal medicine, Judicial authority |
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Type of Article: Research Article |
Subject:
Forensic Epidemiology
Received: 2010/08/11 | Accepted: 2020/06/10 | ePublished: 2020/06/10
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