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Quality of care in US—Medical accidental deaths outnumber others
Screen shot of a bar chart comparing causes of deaths between medical, auto, workplace, and air. The data shows Medical: 100,000, Auto: 41,000, Workplace: 5,000, and Air: 0.
Source: To Err is Human: Building a Safer Health System, Institute of Medicine, 1999.
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