Drug A has ten times the number of drug-related ED visits in the DAWN statistics as Drug B. Drug A is used by ten times the number of individuals as Drug B. What are the relative toxicities of the two drugs?
A. Drug A is more toxic than Drug B
B. Drug B is more toxic than Drug A
C. Drugs A and B have equivalent toxicities
D. Not enough information is present to judge the relative toxicities of Drugs A
and B
C. Drugs A and B have equivalent toxicities
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1. 2.2 2. 4 3. 7 4. 9