400K deaths/yr due to medical errors is a claim that reveals a profound innumeracy in the people making it. In the US, there are ~2.6M deaths/yr. @CDCgov says ~715K occur in hospitals. 400K would imply 56% of all hospital deaths are due to error. The numbers don't make sense. https://twitter.com/BenMazer/status/1031544204089073665 …
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Thank you for the article-I have long thought the claim was ridiculous.
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Even the first IOM study on deaths due to error was highly dodgy in its methods and conclusion. These just keep getting worse
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I've read the original report & your rebuttal. It seems to me that both struggle with definition problems: what is a medical error, what is preventable, etc. If you, MDs, cannot agree what these terms refer to, then how can you asses your own performance? How can the patients??
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I like your choice of words- " Error Inflation". There is another term I prefer- Propagation of error. Uncertainty of the independent variable introducing larger uncertainty, in the dependent variable.More the steps from A to Z, more headline news for our perverse pleasures.
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