195,000 annual deaths linked to in-hospital errors, study says.
Approximately 195,000 people in the United States died from potentially preventable in-hospital medical errors--or double the highest number estimated by the Institute of Medicine in its 1999 landmark report--in 2000, 2001, and 2002, according to a new study of 37 million patient records.
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