Value of Data Collected by Coroners and Medical Examiners as a Data Source for TOxicovigilance

Value of Data Collected by Coroners and Medical Examiners as a Data Source for TOxicovigilance Value of Data Collected by Coroners and Medical Examiners as a Data Source for Toxicovigilance LITERATURE REVIEW Value of Data Collected by Coroners and Medical Examiners as a Data Source for Toxicovigilance LITERATURE REVIEW Direction de la santé environnementale et de la toxicologie June 2018 AUTHOR Ju. [...] 4 Institut national de santé publique du Québec Value of Data Collected by Coroners and Medical Examiners as a Data Source for Toxicovigilance 3 Reviewed literature Following evaluation of the full texts, a total of 62 articles on surveillance activities examining toxicological analysis data collected by coroners or medical examiners and extracted from investigation reports or death certificates w. [...] 3.2 Populations or circumstances of death targeted in the studies Although most of the studies focused on all direct or indirect poisonings in the general population, some of the articles targeted specific populations or circumstances of death. [...] In addition, the codification of the causes of death or of the substances involved in the records could obscure information on substances detected in toxicological analyses, and make identifying cases more difficult and less precise (Gladstone et al., 2016; Slavova et al., 2017). [...] The relevance of the articles was assessed according to the following criteria: country where the study was located, data source and similarity with the data collection system of Bureau du coroner du Québec, substances investigated or detected that may be found in Québec, presence of information that may facilitate the development of indicators.