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2024-07-07 20:46:39 UTC - NOT_HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: 659BA8E84863415A119531CFD3CE606BDFCC20B960346F232D042F8700FF5370
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Claims medical errors are a leading cause of death are false. The claim is from a 2016 analysis that combined a small number of studies from populations that were not representative of the population. The analysis made unsubstantiated connections between errors and deaths https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/critical-thinking-health/medical-error-not-third-leading-cause-death https://www.statnews.com/2016/05/09/medical-errors-deaths-bmj/
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