For Researchers

Database coverage

This database aggregates publicly available coronial findings from all Australian jurisdictions. While we endeavour to include all published findings, we cannot guarantee complete coverage. Official coronial repositories and depository services maintained by individual coroners' courts may have access to additional findings, unpublished information, and materials that are not publicly accessible and therefore not represented here. This resource should be treated as a convenience index rather than an authoritative or exhaustive archive.

What the search covers

The search function queries all structured metadata generated through automated tagging, including the AI-generated summary, clinical setting, specialty involved, hospital name, drug names, procedures, contributing factors, recommendations, and other extracted fields.

Notably, the search does not index the full text of coroners' reports. This is an intentional design decision rather than simply a technical limitation. Full-text search over unstructured legal documents tends to produce a high rate of false positives: for example, a finding that mentions a condition incidentally in a single line — such as a background history of prostate cancer in a case primarily concerning a medication error — would surface for any search on that condition, even though it has no material relevance to the case. Restricting search to curated, structured metadata produces more meaningful results for clinical and medico-legal learning purposes.

The automated tagging is AI-generated and may contain errors. If you identify an incorrectly tagged case, please let us know.

Research collaboration

For formal research purposes, I am open to collaboration. As the maintainer of this database, I can perform more comprehensive queries against the underlying dataset than the web interface permits — including full-text search across the complete corpus of coroners' reports. If you are undertaking research that would benefit from this level of access, please reach out via the contact page to discuss a collaboration arrangement.

CSV export

All search result sets of 500 cases or fewer can be exported to CSV directly from the search interface. The export includes the full structured metadata for each case — including the AI-generated summary, all tagged fields, and source URL — which should assist researchers in efficiently screening and triaging cases without having to open each finding individually. To use this feature, apply filters or a search query to narrow results to 500 or fewer, then click the Export CSV button in the search toolbar.