How a National Needs Assessment Informed Early Death Scene Guidance

The Institute of Medicine’s 2003 workshop discussed how the National Institute of Justice developed death scene guidance published in 1998. The process began with a national needs assessment and took several years.

That history helps explain how a guide can grow out of documented differences in practice. When citing the workshop, identify the edition or year under discussion. Its description concerns the development of the 1998 guide.

Institute of Medicine, Medicolegal Death Investigation System (2003), p. 20