Adverse effects

Last Update: July 20th 2009

Adverse Effects of Medical Treatment

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Analysis of deaths coded to Adverse effects of medical treatment suggests large variation.

Data Source: WHO Mortality Database. Deaths shown are for year closest to 2005. Only countries with data more recent than 2000 are shown. Results shown are after age-sex pro-rata redistribution of deaths coded to partially specified causes. See Discussion 7.2 for more details about methods.