In inpatient settings, adverse drug events account for an estimated one in three of all hospital adverse events. They affect approximately 2 million hospital stays every year, and prolong hospital stays by between one and five days.
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Most childhood vaccines are 90–99% effective in preventing disease. Side effects are rarely serious.
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The first war in which wide-scale use of anesthetics occurred was the Civil War, and 80% of all wounds were in the extremities.
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The most destructive flu epidemic of all times in recorded history occurred in 1918, with approximately 20 million deaths worldwide.
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Asthma cases in Americans are about 75% higher today than they were in 1980.
The Social Control of Deviance
While most people resist labels of deviance, some embrace them. In what different ways do these ...