[HTML][HTML] Physical assessment of tortures: Interobserver analysis of medico-legal degrees of consistency based on the Istanbul protocol

L Franceschetti, F Magli, C Nava, D De Angelis… - Legal Medicine, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract The Istanbul Protocol section on medicolegal evaluation delineates the guidelines
for the correct management of the physical examination and the methods of assigning the
degrees of consistency. Considering that most cases exhibit highly heterogeneous lesions,
the examiner is forced to rely on his own experience, and their evaluation may be very
subjective. The purpose of this work is to understand how subjective such an evaluation may
be and whether the “experience” factor, interpreted as years dedicated to this profession and …