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2024-07-07 17:15:28 UTC - NOT_HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: D3E55F63385125317A1A53C4BDDFFAFEE488750DB8C81FCD21C17501E5E15C42
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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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