How Common Are Medical Mistakes?
- Barbara Starfield’s article in The Journal of the American Medical Association place the estimates even higher, citing a total of 225,000 deaths due to medical errors, which would place health-caused deaths as the 3rd leading cause of death in the USA.
- 725,000 from heart disease.
- 550,000 from cancer.
- 225,000 deaths annually from medical errors.
- 167,000 from stroke or other cerebrovascular disease.
- 124,000 from chronic lower respiratory disease.
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