Coronial Study - External user needs
External User needs
There are a number of key users of coronial information. While there is no statistical record of
the information requests to coroners, each coroner was able to list a number of inquiries and point
to a stream of requests for information about classes of deaths including scuba diving, youth
suicide and large studies on work-related fatalities and road injuries. The systematic provision
of information on Sudden Infant Death Syndrome was highlighted as one area where a coordinated
approach to information gathering and provision had supported ongoing research and prevention.
Current manual information systems and limitation of coding in electronic systems restrict the
availability of information and increase the cost of retrieval significantly.
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The following sections detail the requirements of major users. Many of these users target large
expenditure at manual information retrieval. A modern information system would considerably reduce
the need for this sort of expenditure. A side effect of the present system is that, even when
detailed information is extracted and systematised by an external user, this is not linked back to
the coronial record system and the coroner cannot make use of the information to search his own
records, nor to ease the task of subsequent external users.
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