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AxionExcel

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17. Journal of Patient Safety that says the numbers may be much higher

Reply to AxionExcel (Reply #16)

Sat Apr 16, 2016, 12:59 PM

Apr 2016

"Now comes a study in the current issue of the Journal of Patient Safety that says the numbers may be much higher — between 210,000 and 440,000 patients each year who go to the hospital for care suffer some type of preventable harm that contributes to their death.

That would make medical errors the third-leading cause of death in America, behind heart disease, which is the first, and cancer, which is second."

http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2013/09/20/224507654/how-many-die-from-medical-mistakes-in-u-s-hospitals

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Journal of Patient Safety that says the numbers may be much higher AxionExcel Apr 2016 #17

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