U.S. Department of Justice

Almost 2,000 Medical Examiners' and Coroners' Offices Investigated About One Million Deaths in 2004

Published in Medicine and Law Weekly, July 13th, 2007

About 2,000 medical examiners' and coroners' offices investigated almost 1 million human deaths in the U.S. during 2004, the latest year for which such data was available, the Justice Department's Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) announced. The data were compiled from the first national census of those offices, which are responsible for medical-legal death investigations.

Approximately 40 percent of all deaths in the United States were referred to medical examiners' and coroners' offices during 2004. About half (487,000) merited further investigation, the survey noted.

As of 2004, there were almost 13,500 unidentified human remains on record in...

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Source: Medicine and Law Weekly (2007-07-13)

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