US Patients Who Died From Preventable Lethal Adverse Events

Data chart by Lee Bob Black.

A public and interactive version of the above Google-created chart is viewable via: http://bit.ly/US-patients-died-preventable-interactive-chart

Data source: The data used to create this chart was in Table 1 of “Medical error — the third leading cause of death in the U.S.,” BMJ 2016;353:i2139, published May 3, 2016.

Date data sourced to create this chart: May 7, 2016.

Data source archived May 7, 2016: http://web.archive.org/web/20160507113712/http://www.bmj.com/content/353/bmj.i2139