GetThisDone wrote:
As many as 98,000 people die each year due to medical error. In a campaign to reduce lethal errors, thousands of hospitals introduced six key changes, including rapid-response teams, re-checks of patient medication, and new guidelines for preventing infection. The campaign estimated that, over an 18-month period, more than 100,000 lives were saved as a direct result of the program.
Which of the following can be most properly inferred from the above statements?
A. Doctors and nurses should be more careful when doing their jobs.
B. The campaign saved all of the people who otherwise would have died due to medical error in that time period.
C. In the future, no one will die because of medical error.
D. If the campaign had not been implemented, more than 100,000 people might have died during the 18-month period due to medical error.
E. The key changes initiated by the campaign will continue to be implemented in the future.
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In this argument, a cause-and-effect relationship is presented between American scientists signing long-term contracts with foreign companies and the government's restrictions on stem cell research. This cause-and-effect relationship is the key to the correct answer.
(A) CORRECT. If American scientists signed the contracts because of U.S. restrictions, we can infer that the new companies they signed with were under fewer restrictions. Therefore, at least some foreign companies must work under fewer restrictions than some American companies do.
(B) While it is possible that once the restrictions are banned American companies will want to hire more scientists and will seek them overseas, there are too many unknowns between the premises we have have been given and this conclusion. It is doubtful that an increase in the number of immigrating stem cell research scientists would have a significant impact on the number of foreign professionals overall.
(C) This passage is about government restrictions; we are given no information about financial backing. Beware of extreme statements such as in all parts of the world.
(D) We are not given any information regarding America's current or future position in terms of stem cell research. Though restrictions and scientists switching companies are two issues related to a company's prosperity, we are given no information about how these directly affect America's position.
(E) We are not given any information that will help us predict the behavior of the scientists in the future.
I think the explanation was incorrectly posted of a different question.