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<blockquote data-quote="_CY_" data-source="post: 2876204" data-attributes="member: 7629"><p>here's a blurp from the BMJ study which freely admits their numbers based on interpolation have limited accuracy.</p><p>again I'm not saying medical errors are not a problem as I've been negatively effected my self. just that the methods/numbers used in this BMJ study are suspect at best.</p><p></p><p>"We calculated a mean rate of</p><p>death from medical error of 251 454 a year using the studies</p><p>reported since the 1999 IOM report and extrapolating to the</p><p>total number of US hospital admissions in 2013. We believe</p><p>this understates the true incidence of death due to medical error</p><p>because the studies cited rely on errors extractable in</p><p>documented health records and include only inpatient deaths.</p><p>Although the assumptions made in extrapolating study data to</p><p>the broader US population may limit the accuracy of our figure,</p><p>the absence of national data highlights the need for systematic</p><p>measurement of the problem. Comparing our estimate to CDC</p><p>rankings suggests that medical error is the third most common</p><p>cause of death in the US (fig 1⇓)."</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="_CY_, post: 2876204, member: 7629"] here's a blurp from the BMJ study which freely admits their numbers based on interpolation have limited accuracy. again I'm not saying medical errors are not a problem as I've been negatively effected my self. just that the methods/numbers used in this BMJ study are suspect at best. "We calculated a mean rate of death from medical error of 251 454 a year using the studies reported since the 1999 IOM report and extrapolating to the total number of US hospital admissions in 2013. We believe this understates the true incidence of death due to medical error because the studies cited rely on errors extractable in documented health records and include only inpatient deaths. Although the assumptions made in extrapolating study data to the broader US population may limit the accuracy of our figure, the absence of national data highlights the need for systematic measurement of the problem. Comparing our estimate to CDC rankings suggests that medical error is the third most common cause of death in the US (fig 1⇓)." [/QUOTE]
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