TY - CHAP M1 - Book, Section TI - Radiology A1 - Latifi, Hamid R. A1 - Maloney, Taylor G. A1 - Maloney, Rebekah J. A2 - Quang, Tony S. A2 - Taft, Michelle S. A2 - Beriwal, Sushil Y1 - 2022 N1 - T2 - Understanding the Principles and Practice of Legal Oncology AB - In 1999, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) reported that medical care was responsible for up to 98,000 deaths per year in the United States.*1 In 2016, Johns Hopkins University researchers estimated that medical errors account for more than 250,000 deaths per year in the United States, resulting in medical error representing the third most common cause of death in the United States.2 The practice of defensive medicine to minimize failure to diagnose disease in a patient has led to increasing volumes of diagnostic tests ordered by physicians across a range of medical specialties.3 SN - PB - McGraw Hill Education CY - New York, NY Y2 - 2024/04/25 UR - hemonc.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1191392507 ER -