I think I'll pass, thank you, given that this film appears to be promoting the myth that medical mistakes are the third leading cause of death in the US and uses the most inflated figure I've seen, 440,000 per year.https://twitter.com/ToErrIsHumanDoc/status/972509973036044288 …
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That number comes from a single paper, and that notably is the “high” estimate that it provided in the range. Why not take the low estimate or the middle? Second, that paper uses global trigger tools, not direct measurement of error to come up with that estimate.
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Why does that matter? Because the tools have poor interhospital consistency and are not appropriately validated. They look for “proxies” for error in administrative data - an unreliable data set, that suggest an error may have happened.
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