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To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (760105)	12/30/2013 9:09:19 AM
From: Brumar89	1 Recommendation Recommended By FJB Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575290

I challenged you to prove the claim and you failed, listing links which trace back to the same article. I don't believe this "stat:" *The U.S. ranks last out of 19 developed countries in preventable deaths in hospitals.* Where is the source? I think the US is likely to have a lower rate of such deaths compared to completely socialized countries. Finally, your last link debunked the claim! Your numbers seemed a bit radical so I did some fact checking… CNN got their information via an infograph from medical billing and coding certification and to be quite frank their referencing was not something I would credit to be completely true. For example, they misquoted Liam Donaldson of the WHO. He said that there is an error in 1 in 10 hospitals in any country, not the United States. This number is where the article created the assumption “33,000 times more likely to die from a hospital error than a plane crash”. > health.usnews.com Also, the Mother Jones article sites a study done by Health Affairs claiming that the number of preventable deaths is higher than reported, which I will assume is where the 200,000 preventable deaths number is coming from. However, this study only had 795 patients across 3 hospitals. I’m going with the IOM’s report is more accurate than this one given the small study population. Also the comment that hospital infections kill more than car accidents, breast cancer and AIDS seems off base given that the article cited hospitalinfection.org doesn’t have any study or references to back that claim, seems like the author’s opinion to me. I would also be interested to know if the citation of these deadly infections are secondary to a weakened immune system due to a primary illness like AIDS. While I agree with you that there is room for medical culture improvement; I also believe that well conducted studies will provide hard facts to the medical culture to engage in practice improvement, not misquoted or non-referenced articles.