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	"Reseachers analyzed 39 prior studies from American hospitals. They concluded that 1.7 to 2.7 million people had serious adverse drug reactions and that 76,000 to 137,000 people died from those reactions. This, they said, makes adverse drug reactions between the fourth and sixth leading cause of death." Incidence of Adverse Drug Reactions in Hospitalized Patients Lazarou et al.; JAMA. 1998;280:1200-1205