The Australian National Coronial Information System: Limited by Quality of Data

The Australian National Coronial Information System (NCIS) database provides a valuable resource (1). However, as for all databases, it is limited by the information that is provided to it (2). Our recent experience accessing the NCIS database highlighted the ability to extract data was limited by ethics requirements to access jurisdictions and data not having been uploaded, but the main failings resulted from a lack of standardization of postmortem examination reports between and within coronial jurisdictions