1Assistant Professor, Department of Forensic Medicine, Chirayu Medical College, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh
2Associate Professor, Department of Forensic Medicine, Chennai Medical College, Trichy, Tamil nadu
Correct recording and documentation of the injury is extremely important in the clinical management of the trauma, as well as in its forensic and judicial assessment. An injury report is the document prepared by the doctor in all medicolegal cases. A typical medicolegal report consist of 3 parts namely preliminaries, body and opinion. This project was undertaken to evaluate the significance of Tertiary Trauma Survey sheet in improving the quality of medicolegal reports. One hundred medicolegal cases were systematically studied from accident cum wound register.
Body part of the injury report, which comprises of injury description and medical investigation details, has shown definite improvement with the use of tertiary trauma survey sheet. However preliminary part like demography did not show any dependency on tertiary trauma survey sheet indicating role of other possible factors.
Forensic, Injury, Medicolegal, Trauma
