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seven-thousand-misattributed · adams-straightdope-handwriting-deaths
- Claim ID
- seven-thousand-misattributed
- Assertion
- The widely repeated figure of 7,000 annual US deaths from doctors' handwriting actually refers to deaths from all medication errors of any kind, traced to a 1998 Lancet paper via Institute of Medicine reports.
- Quote
7,000 U.S. deaths result from all medication-related errors of any sort, inside and outside hospitals, and not just those tied to poor penmanship
- Quote language
- en
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