Know Your Chances

Woloshin, S., & Welch. (2008). Know Your Chances: Understanding Health Statistics. University of California Press.

Type

Book

Intellectual base

Review or monograph

Year

2008

Link

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK115435/

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  • If 20 million prescriptions were written, the rate is 1 death per million exposures — far below background mortality for almost any patient population

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