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JKA has published papers in bioscience journals and edited textbooks on adverse drug reactions; he has often acted as an expert witness in civil actions relating to suspected adverse drug reactions and in coroners\u2019 courts. CH holds grant funding from the NIHR, the NIHR School of Primary Care Research. CH has received expenses and fees for his media work, for teaching EBM and is also paid for his GP work in the National Health Service out of hours (contract Oxford Health National Health Service Foundation Trust). CH is the Director of the Centre for Evidence-based Medicine. REF has undertaken research and published on adverse drug reactions and medication errors. REF has acted as an expert witness in coronial and other legal cases related to these. ARC holds grant funding from Cancer Alliance. ARC has received fees for media work, a scientific advisory committee at IQVIA, and external examinations at UK Universities. ARC is the Head of the School of Pharmacy at the University of Birmingham and is an honorary pharmacovigilance pharmacist at the West Midlands Centre for Adverse Drug Reaction Reporting. GCR is the director of a limited company that is independently contracted to work as an epidemiologist and teach at the University of Oxford. GCR received scholarships (2017\u201320) from the National Health Service NIHR School for Primary Care Research, the Naji Foundation, and the Rotary Foundation to study for a DPhil at the University of Oxford. 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The study protocol was preregistered on the OSF (\n                      \n                      ); the code to generate the database and the Preventable Deaths Tracker is openly available via GitHub (\n                      \n                      ); individual Prevention of Future Deaths reports are available on the Courts and Tribunals Judiciary website (\n                      \n                      ); and all other study materials are openly available via the OSF project page (\n                      \n                      ).","order":7,"name":"Ethics","group":{"name":"EthicsHeading","label":"Availability of Data and Material"}},{"value":"The code to generate the database and the Preventable Deaths Tracker is openly available via GitHub (\n                      \n                      ).","order":8,"name":"Ethics","group":{"name":"EthicsHeading","label":"Code Availability"}},{"value":"HSF updated the study protocol, carried out screening of PFDs, extracted remaining data, conducted all analyses, produced all figures and tables, and wrote the first draft of the manuscript. 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