Medical error is third biggest cause of death in the US, experts say

Re:Medical error is third biggest cause of death in the US, ... by mattkrause on Wednesday May 04, 2016 @08:34PM (#11633114)

But it's not more than doubling if the confidence interval ranges from 0.5 to 2.5. It's somewhere between "halves the risk" and "quintuples the risk", which translates to "we don't really know what's going on here."

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Re:Medical error is third biggest cause of death in the US, ... by mwhite on Wednesday May 04, 2016 @09:37PM (#11633354)

That's the absolute additional deaths, not the change ratio.

> Planned out-of-hospital birth was associated with a higher rate of perinatal death than was planned in-hospital birth (3.9 vs. 1.8 deaths per 1000 deliveries, P=0.003; odds ratio after adjustment for maternal characteristics and medical conditions, 2.43; 95% confidence interval [CI], 1.37 to 4.30; adjusted risk difference, 1.52 deaths per 1000 births; 95% CI, 0.51 to 2.54). The odds for neonatal seizure were higher and the odds for admission to a neonatal intensive care unit lower with planned out-of-hospital births than with planned in-hospital birth. Planned out-of-hospital birth was also strongly associated with unassisted vaginal delivery (93.8%, vs. 71.9% with planned in-hospital births; P<0.001) and with decreased odds for obstetrical procedures

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