According to the 1999 Institute of Medicine report, as many as 98,000 deaths each year could be attributed to:
a. cardiovascular disease.
b. obesity.
c. medical error.
d. drug overdose.
ANS: C
In 1999 it was thought that our health care system was expensive and that access and quality were not optimal, but we had not considered this important fact: many people die of preventable medical errors in the United States. This number is not the correct statistic for cardiovascular disease, obesity, or drug overdose.
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