Validation of an in-house Dutch Forensic Death Coding system (FDC)

The FDC system is an in-house Dutch system that is useful for coding causes of death from a forensic perspective. This system could make the notation of forensic pathologists and forensic physicians less ambiguous, which could improve the understanding of cases by professionals such as public prosecutors, lawyers and judges who have to make decisions based on autopsy reports. In the future, this system could also be used in forensic medicine by forensic physicians and for (forensic) mortality reporting in public health statistics.