Citation

Braham MY, Gharbeoui M, Bellali M, Attia H, Harzallah H, Bekir O, Hamdoun M, Allouche M. Egypt. J. Forensic Sci. 2019; 9(1): e21.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2019, Forensic Medicine Authority of Egypt, Publisher Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1186/s41935-019-0127-5

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

The growing proportion of elderly implies that natural and unnatural deaths of the elderly will be increasingly confronted. The objective of our study was to determine the unnatural manner and causes of death in the elderly, defined as individuals at least 65 years of age at the time of death. We conducted a monocentric restrospective study based on police investigation reports and medicolegal autopsy reports collected from the Department of Legal Medicine of Charles Nicolle Hospital in Tunis, Tunisia between January 1st, 2016 and December 31st, 2017.

Language: en