[On the problem of registration of mortality associated with alcohol consumption among the population in the forensic medical practice].

The objective of the present study was the comparative analysis of the data obtained from the available medical documentation with a view to estimating the effectiveness of taking into account the mortality associated with alcohol consumption. The data subjected to the analysis included the age and the gender of the deceased subjects, complete forensic medical diagnoses from 1607 expert reports and acts of forensic medical expertise of the corpses (form 171/y), and information about the cause of death (item 19) from the relevant medical death certificates (form 106y/08). The mortality associated with alcohol consumption estimated based on the expert reports and acts of forensic medical expertise of the corpses (form 171/y) amounted to 6.7% (95% CI: 5.5- 8.1%); the occurrence of pathology attributable to alcohol consumption was estimated at 7.2% (95% CI: 5.9-8.5%) of the total number of deaths. It was shown that forensic medical experts do not employ in the full measure the diagnostic potential of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-10) when having to deal with the mortality associated with alcohol consumption. The results of the study confirm the qualitative transformation of the alcohol attributable mortality structure associated with the transfer of information from the expert reports and acts of forensic medical expertise of the corpses (form 171/y) to the medical death certificates (form 106/y-08).