Mortalidad infantil en un hospital de nivel terciario. Limitación de esfuerzo terapéutico, correspondencia clínico-patológica y precisión diagnóstica

Hospital mortality analysis is useful to evaluate the quality of the paediatric care and to detect adverse results that could be corrected. Paediatric autopsy continues to provide clinically significant data for paediatricians and families. Therapeutic effort limitation and palliative care is increasingly applied in paediatric end of life care. The number of infants and children dying without a final aetiological diagnosis is still considerably high.