Anish Koka, MD Profile picture
May 6, 2018 10 tweets 3 min read
Small plug: Medical errors as 3rd leading cause of death comes from this paper in the Journal of patient safety journals.lww.com/journalpatient…

I believe it’s their most cited.. (1/n John James accompanied by a number of illustrious academics sat together in Congress and testified to the veracity of this new evidence.

The number - 440,000 dying from medical errors in hospitals means more than half of folks dying in hospitals are from medical error