Towards a standard of scientific evidence in on-site inspection: compilation of the ECLM on-site inspection form in a broad case history

IF 1.4 4区医学 Q3 MEDICINE, LEGAL

Legal Medicine Pub Date : 2025-09-22 DOI:10.1016/j.legalmed.2025.102717

Jessika Camatti , Anna Laura Santunione , Monica Bolognini , Denis Cusack , Stefania Zerbo , Antonina Argo , Maria Puntarello , Giovanni Scalzo , Fattorini Paolo , Tommaso Bruscagin , Lorenzo Desinan , Laura Battistig , Fabrizio Tosku , Guido Viel , Giorgia Franchetti , Biagio Solarino , Laura Ambrosi , Giovanni Cecchetto , Silvia Damiana Visonà , Emanuele Sala , Rossana Cecchi

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Abstract

The European Council of Legal Medicine (ECLM) on-site inspection form allows the collection of data relevant to the identification, collection, sampling and preservation of all elements that, during the on-site inspection, may be useful as forensic evidence. The aim of this study is to assess the completeness of the information collected in a large number of on-site inspections, the records of which were drawn up without the use of the ECLM on-site inspection form, in order to verify the usefulness and the application of this form.

The authors present a multicentre study involving 20 Italian forensic medicine institutes. For each institute, the reports of on-site inspections carried out without the use of the ECLM on-site inspection form were collected and a forensic pathologist was asked to analyse the individual cases and to identify, for each case, the presence or absence of information regarding all the points examined by the ECLM on-site inspection form. A practical database was prepared and sent to each institute for this analysis.

Data were collected and analysed from a total of 1721 on-site inspection reports. Our results document that certain items on the ECLM on-site inspection form are not always investigated in reports written without the use of this tool.

The use of the ECLM on-site inspection form proves to be a valid tool to assist the forensic pathologist during the on-site inspection. We therefore hope that the forms developed by the ECLM will be systematically adopted in the forensic practice of the forensic pathologist.

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面向现场检查的科学证据标准：在广泛的案例历史中编写ECLM现场检查表。

欧洲法律医学理事会现场视察表允许收集与现场视察期间可能作为法医证据有用的所有要素的鉴定、收集、抽样和保存有关的数据。本研究的目的是评估在大量现场检查中收集的信息的完整性，这些信息的记录是在没有使用ECLM现场检查表格的情况下编写的，以验证该表格的有用性和应用。作者提出了一项涉及20个意大利法医研究所的多中心研究。对于每个研究所，收集了在不使用ECLM现场检查表的情况下进行现场检查的报告，并请法医病理学家分析个别案件，并就每个案件确定是否存在关于ECLM现场检查表所检查的所有点的信息。编制了一个实用的数据库，并送交各研究所进行分析。从总共1721份现场视察报告中收集和分析了数据。我们的结果表明，在没有使用此工具的情况下，ECLM现场检查表上的某些项目并不总是在编写报告时进行调查。使用ECLM现场检查表是协助法医病理学家进行现场检查的有效工具。因此，我们希望ECLM开发的形式将在法医病理学家的法医实践中系统地采用。

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Legal Medicine Nursing-Issues, Ethics and Legal Aspects

CiteScore

2.80

自引率

6.70%

发文量

119

审稿时长

7.9 weeks

期刊介绍： Legal Medicine provides an international forum for the publication of original articles, reviews and correspondence on subjects that cover practical and theoretical areas of interest relating to the wide range of legal medicine. Subjects covered include forensic pathology, toxicology, odontology, anthropology, criminalistics, immunochemistry, hemogenetics and forensic aspects of biological science with emphasis on DNA analysis and molecular biology. Submissions dealing with medicolegal problems such as malpractice, insurance, child abuse or ethics in medical practice are also acceptable.