All inflating the number of deaths due to medical error to be between 30-60% of all hospital deaths (I'm not making this up) does is to give quacks a talking point and to hamper the efforts of those who are actually trying to do something to reduce the number of medical errors.
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yeah, but no. Until someone improves on those two numbers by doing a more rigorous study, it is just cherry -picking to deny the numbers.
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Bullshit. Only innumeracy allows those ridiculous numbers to persist.
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Surely mistakes are only part of the story. Overmedicine is the more significant driver of preventible morbidity.
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Those numbers are pure math & logic errors. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1955272/ …https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11466119
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For those not interested in reading detailed methodological papers, the analogy below using Bayes Theorem tells you 90% of what you need to know (ie, when reliability is suboptimal, priors are very important).pic.twitter.com/kQCv5zpAjM
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Working on a project related to this. Is there any retrospective on medical error rates in different forms of healthcare system? E.g. market based systems vs command based
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Oh now I see. Wow. Very emotional here. Im so sad. Heartbreaking...whatever the numbers are extimated to be, can we agree that medical board disciplinary actions are not corrolated with improved public safety?
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