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2024-07-09 00:46:41 UTC - NOT_HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: DFFA949F81AE93DDECCA49312B220D9959EB577DBE47F3BEE07A849387788E6F
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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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