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Yeah I didn't mention this in the essay, other than briefly alluding to the fact that not all were preventable, but if you look at the footnotes the sources I linked to go into this in more detail. It's difficult to come up with an exact number though: the primary source I'm citing says that (IIRC) only about a third of ADRs are preventable, but the FDA page citing that source says that most ADRs are preventable. And in a way they could both be correct; it's possible that someone could die from taking an emphysema drug that they needed in that moment, but maybe the emphysema itself was preventable.


Thanks for the clarifications. Don't get me wrong, this was a great effort at summarizing the data available, I was just adding the additional data that would be useful.




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