To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (760307 ) 12/30/2013 11:47:59 PM From: Brumar89 Read Replies (1) | Respond to It was a link YOU posted which debunked the CNN claim - see below: 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. 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.
