Study on medical error as third cause of US deaths criticized as 'precarious'

Two researchers challenged 'characterization of medical care as more dangerous' than guns or cars and provided numbers that were 10% of original findings

Two researchers have challenged a recent British Medical Journal analysis that said medical error is the third leading cause of death in the US.

In a searing response to the analysis, also published in the BMJ, researchers wrote that the results came from a flawed, informal methodology and misconstrued how many people died annually from medical error.