.@ezraklein @sarahkliff Where did you get the 200K+ medical error death figure? I'm seeing half that http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22053736
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Replying to @politicalmath
@politicalmath I suspect that you don't exactly expect a response, but you don't think Vox cares about facts, do you?@ezraklein@sarahkliff1 reply 1 retweet 1 like -
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@KilroyFSU I've given up on getting responses, which is why every time I make a request it is now public@ezraklein@sarahkliff1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes -
Replying to @politicalmath
@politicalmath@KilroyFSU@ezraklein It’s from the Journal of Patient Safety, which is cited in that card. http://journals.lww.com/journalpatientsafety/fulltext/2013/09000/a_new,_evidence_based_estimate_of_patient_harms.2.aspx …1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@sarahkliff Is there a definitional difference between "preventable harm" and "medical error" that would account for the difference?1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@politicalmath I’ve written a lot more about this here (http://bit.ly/1zXbOGo ) but its mostly that its a very hard issue to track.2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@sarahkliff If medical error becomes a major "issue", we'll see less of it just b/c doctors will default to "Nope. Nothing could be done"1 reply 1 retweet 0 likes
@politicalmath Yes, certainly a tricky area here of what counts as preventable, and what is just the cost of doing medicine.
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