The report, published in this week's Journal of the American Medical Association, included patients admitted to hospitals with adverse drug reactions and those whose reactions occurred after they were admitted. The study excluded errors in administration, noncompliance with instructions and drug abuse. An accompanying editorial by David Bates of Boston's Brigham and Women's Hospital also urged careful analysis. Jeff Stier, associate director of the New York-based American Council on Science and Health, said in an interview that drugs also save countless lives, a fact that may be obscured when analyzing adverse reactions. The people know it in their hearts and they hear of cases close to them.
Statistics eventually get to the researchers themselves.
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