The confidential enquiry into maternal deaths: Its role and importance for pathologists

Abstract

Comparatively few pathologists seem to know of the existence of the confidential enquiry into maternal deaths and fewer still know anything ofits aims or its methods ofobtaining confidential information. As the success of any such enquiry depends greatly on the accuracy and completeness of necropsy, histological, and other laboratory reports a brief account of the report itself and the role of pathologists in it may not be out of place.