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Medesa

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Even though medical malpractice kills some 195,000 hospital patients every year and injures many more, only about _____ of those injured files a medical malpractice claim.
 
  a. 12 percent
  b. 23 percent
  c. 41 percent
  d. 1 percent

Question 2

In 2000, the Institute of Medicine reported that preventable medical errors result in up to _____ deaths in hospital every year.
 
  a. 10,000
  b. 20,000
  c. 50,000
  d. 98,000


guyanai

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Reply #1 on: Aug 8, 2018
Answer to Question 1

a

Answer to Question 2

d


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