These studies do not prove that medical errors _caused_ these deaths. It proves that people who died had some sort of medical error in the weeks leading up to t

These studies do not prove that medical errors _caused_ these deaths. It proves that people who died had some sort of medical error in the weeks leading up to their death. As it turns out, people who are going to die soon get a fair number of medical 'interventions', which means there are many opportunities for errors to occur. This inflates the error rate for these patients. But if we're talking about patients who are going to die very shortly anyway, did a nurse accidentally giving them a double dose of their evening antacid really hasten their death? Probably not... This is not to say that there aren't preventable deaths due to medical errors. There absolutely are. But studies like this seriously inflate the numbers... I'd recommend the Healthcare Triage video on subject: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JkFN_2mzR4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JkFN_2mzR4