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The number has fallen drastically over the last 40 years. In 1950, about half of all patients who died in hospitals were autopsied. Now it varies between 5-13 percent, due in large part to modern imaging techniques like CAT scans and MRIs. They tell the picture of a person’s disease so well that invasive procedures aren’t warranted.
