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The authors reply to a letter regarding their article on estimating preventable hospital deaths, reinforcing the need for consistency and explicitness in measuring medical errors.
The authors emphasize the need for improved consistency, explicitness, and reproducibility in the measurement of medical errors and associated harms.
We thank Dr James for offering further comments on the debate on estimating deaths due to medical error, and for his clarification of the definition used in his Journal of Patient Safety article.1 Dr James' letter reinforces the need for improved consistency, explicitness and reproducibility in measurement of medical error (and harms associated with it) that we called for in our article.2 One area where such clarity is much needed is in what Dr James describes as errors of omission, which by their nature are more difficult to detect than the slips and …
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Shojania et al. (2017) conducted a letter in Medical error. The authors reply to a letter regarding their article on estimating preventable hospital deaths, reinforcing the need for consistency and explicitness in measuring medical errors.
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