Interesting Statistics

[ZMP_CTR]

I posted this before, but I moved the picture on my server, so here it is again.

 

[max popenker]

Great stats, but for what period it is?

 

[Citroen]

Source Please

I do not doubt your numbers and would like to use them in writing some letters but to do so requires some data - can you provide your souce and the year (s) listed? It appears to be 2006 but I would like to be able to state for which year and know I would not be proven wrong.

Thanks - and you are right - very interesting statistics - especially when you hear the phrase - "it's for the children"

John
Charlotte, NC

 

[wacki]

Source?

Otherwise it does us no good.

 

[everallm]

Also, I assume this is DEATHS not simply injury?

 

[unrealtrip]

Here's a source for some similar stats sourced from the 2002 National Vital Statistics Report. All of them available here at the CDC: http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/pubs/pubd/nvsr/nvsr.htm

http://www.the-eggman.com/writings/death_stats.html

 

[MachIVshooter]

The chart appears to be accidental deaths only. While we all know that automobiles and doctors cause far more deaths annually than firearms, many, many more than 600 people die of GSW's every year.

 

[unrealtrip]

MachIVshooter: Check out that second link I posted, there is a chart there that shows leading causes of non-accidental deaths as well. Those are from 2002.

NOTE: Firearms Statistics Include Gang Warfare, Self Defense Shootings and Criminals Killed by Police

Summary:
Major Cardiovasular Diseases 936,923
Malignant Neoplasms 553,091
Chronic Lower Resperitory Dis. 122,009
Diabetes Mellitus 69,301
Influenza and Pneumonia 65,313
Alzheimers 49,558
Motor Vehicle Accidents 43,354
Firearms 28,663

 

[tonage]

One stat that I've heard from several sources is the number of people who die every year as a result of doctors' mistakes: 100,000

 

[unrealtrip]

That figure is not quite right. I'm not sure what your sources are, but I'm going to lean in the direction of CDC stats.
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr54/nvsr54_19.pdf page 18-19, for 2004 accidental death statistics.

On average in the USA about 100,000 people die per year due to accidental reasons. Generally a little less than half ~45,000 are due to auto accidents. The other 55,000 deaths are broken down further with 2,889 being due to complications of medical and surgical care for the year 2004.

You're more 7 times more likely to accidentally poison yourself than you are to get killed by a doctor.

 

[tonage]

http://www.mercola.com/1999/archive/medical_mistakes.htm

 

[Jimmy Newman]

There was one article a few years ago which said that deaths at the hands of the medical system in the US is actually more like 225,000/yr (of course, many of them are not easily preventable, like the last two categories which make up the bulk of the deaths).

12000/yr from unnecessary surgery
7000/yr from medication errors in hospitals
20000/yr from other errors in hospitals
80000/yr from nosocomial infections in hospitals
106000/yr from nonerror, adverse effects of medication (i.e. an negative reaction to a drug the patient didn't know he/she was allergic to, etc.)

This article was published in the Journal of the American Medical Association in 2000. (vol. 284, pp 483-485). It also states that these are conservative estimates from several reports and other reports would put the mark nearer 250,000.

 

[unrealtrip]

I'm still going to stick with CDC figures.

Deaths Due to Medical Errors Are Exaggerated in Institute of Medicine Report
http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/full/284/1/93

The other message in the IOM report is hot and shrill. It shouts about death and disability in US hospitals: "Preventable adverse events are a leading cause of death" and "at least 44,000, and perhaps as many as 98,000, Americans die in hospitals each year as a result of medical errors." The unstated corollary—reinforced by the death rate from motor vehicle collisions juxtaposed with the death rate from adverse events—is that eliminating preventable adverse events also will eliminate the deaths.

Motor vehicle occupants do survive their ride if collisions are avoided. Unlike most people who step into motor vehicles, most patients admitted to hospitals have high disease burdens and high death risks even before they enter the hospital. Although some hospital deaths are preventable, most will occur no matter how many "accidents" we avoid. Of course, medical errors are never excusable, but the baseline death risk has to be known and factored out before drawing conclusions about the real effect of adverse reactions on death rates, preventable or otherwise

 

[Ieyasu]

ZMP_CTR wrote:

I posted this before, but I moved the picture on my server, so here it is again.

Here's the source (scroll down). The chart is sourced with references from http://guncite.com/gun_control_gcgvacci.html

ZMP_CTR, why didn't you post the source in the first place. Very peculiar.