Regulation .06 Establishing a Hospital Death as a Medical Examiner Case.

The hospital physician shall be guided by the history and other circumstances in judging whether or not a death is under the jurisdiction of the medical examiner.

Cases that do not fall under medical examiner jurisdiction may not be made such and will not be accepted simply because hospital autopsy permission has been refused or is not available.

Cases that fall under medical examiner jurisdiction may not be autopsied by the hospital pathologist because consent for autopsy has been obtained in accordance with Health-General Article, §5-501, Annotated Code of Maryland.