RT Book, Section
A1 Latifi, Hamid R.
A1 Maloney, Taylor G.
A1 Maloney, Rebekah J.
A2 Quang, Tony S.
A2 Taft, Michelle S.
A2 Beriwal, Sushil
SR Print(0)
ID 1191392507
T1 Radiology
T2 Understanding the Principles and Practice of Legal Oncology
YR 2022
FD 2022
PB McGraw Hill Education
PP New York, NY
SN 9781260474077
LK hemonc.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1191392507
RD 2024/04/20
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