The forensic medicine department of the National Institute of Scientific Investigation (NISI) designed a form of forensic laboratory information sheet for autopsy practice in 2006. The forensic laboratory information sheet consists of three parts of checklist; the first part concerns death circumstance-related investigatory facts, the second part displays a table of checklist regarding types of forensic scientific tests to be done, and the third describes brief presumptive results of forensic autopsy. This laboratory information sheet reminds forensic pathologists and other forensic medicine staffs to perform appropriate tissue sampling, helps reduce the probability of errors during interdepartmental flow of sampled tissues, and contributes to produce better forensic science results on the basis of good communication. We suggest that this communication form between forensic medicine and science departments should be now considered efficient and actuated especially in areas outside NISI.

Key words : autopsy, laboratory information sheet, communication

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