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According to a new study of 37 million patient records by HealthGrades, a Lakewood, CO-based health care quality company, an average of 195,000 people in the United States died due to potentially preventable, in-hospital medical errors in each of the years 2000, 2001, and 2002.

Study finds much higher rate of annual errors