The percentage of blunt and penetrating trauma deaths autopsied has increased recently in the United States, but extensive geographic variation in autopsy frequency suggests that the benefits of autopsy findings for trauma care quality improvement and public health surveillance of injuries are distributed unevenly throughout the nation.
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