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U.S. ranked last at preventing deaths from preventable conditions

Quality Improvement Monitor, January 11, 2008

The United States is the worst of 19 industrialized countries at preventing deaths due to treatable conditions, according to new rankings by Health Affairs.

France, Japan, and Australia rated best, Reuters reported.

If the U.S. healthcare system performed as well as those three countries, this country would see 101,000 fewer deaths each year, Reuters said.

Health Affairs researchers Ellen Nolte and Martin McKee of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine tracked deaths that they determined could have been prevented by access to timely and effective healthcare, and ranked nations on how they did.

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