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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.
What if error was not caused by doctors and nurses But patients (in taking doses) etc.

B. The campaign saved all of the people who otherwise would have died due to medical error in that time period.
Seems Right

C. In the future, no one will die because of medical error.
Can't Predict

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.
Not necessarily

E. The key changes initiated by the campaign will continue to be implemented in the future.
They can be improved or new steps better than these can be implemented. You never know.
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A,C< E are out of question as they deal with other issues or are extremes remaining B and D B seems possible.. problem with D is that it is telling specifically about 18 months what if the patients would have died due to some other reason in those 18 months despite taking precautions...hence B seems more apt.. My take.
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D is my take,

A. Doctors and nurses should be more careful when doing their jobs.--No. Medical error can also be caused in patient's negligence.(Initially I thought it could be a contender, but now)

B. The campaign saved all of the people who otherwise would have died due to medical error in that time period.
This could not be said. "All people"? In 1 year if it is 98,000, in 18 months it could be 1,47,000. So saved were 1,00,000 only. and other 47,000? Also what if atleast 1 who survived would have had no medical error during his medication?

C. In the future, no one will die because of medical error.--> No evidence.

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.---> As I explained in B, if this campaign is not implemented, 1,47,000 would have died.

E. The key changes initiated by the campaign will continue to be implemented in the future. --> No evidence.
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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.
What if error was not caused by doctors and nurses But patients (in taking doses) etc.

B. The campaign saved all of the people who otherwise would have died due to medical error in that time period.
Seems Right

C. In the future, no one will die because of medical error.
Can't Predict

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.
Not necessarily

E. The key changes initiated by the campaign will continue to be implemented in the future.
They can be improved or new steps better than these can be implemented. You never know.

hi,
B can not be the answer.
because B is talking of a time period of 18 months that is 1 and a half year... and question stem talks of one year
that is in one year 98000, so if you take average 98000(1yr)+49000(1/2 year)=147000, out of which only 100000 are saved.. so B does not tell the correct picture..
hope it made sense..
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A,C< E are out of question as they deal with other issues or are extremes remaining B and D B seems possible.. problem with D is that it is telling specifically about 18 months what if the patients would have died due to some other reason in those 18 months despite taking precautions...hence B seems more apt.. My take.

hi mridupawan..
there is a shift in number of year talked of one year in question stem to 1 and 1/2 year in choice B....
Be careful on these shifts..
Now for answer

A. Doctors and nurses should be more careful when doing their jobs.
there various improvement due to which lifes have been saved so we cannot say negligence was the reason

B. The campaign saved all of the people who otherwise would have died due to medical error in that time period.
Subtle shift in number of years.. one year in question stem to 1 and 1/2 yr in this inference.

C. In the future, no one will die because of medical error.
this is too extreme a sentence and cannot be inferred

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.
It is clearly given that more than 100000 lives were saved so it can be clearly inferred that had it been not for the campaign, these lives would have been lost.. correct

E. The key changes initiated by the campaign will continue to be implemented in the future.
again a very extreme sentence.. there may still be even better and more useful changes deviced in future..
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hi,
B can not be the answer.
because B is talking of a time period of 18 months that is 1 and a half year... and question stem talks of one year
that is in one year 98000, so if you take average 98000(1yr)+49000(1/2 year)=147000, out of which only 100000 are saved.. so B does not tell the correct picture..
hope it made sense..

The maths part....I should have read more carefully, But the timer ticks :(
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This is an inference question. So we have to find out what must be true from the given statements. For example- If I make a statement that " It has been raining since the last three days". The inference would be "The last three days have not been dry". The goal here is to reduce lethal errors. Doing so 100,000 lives would be saved during an 18 month period. So the only statement that can be inferred is mentioned in answer choice "D". As for your question, this is CR - a different section; hence do not apply the SC rules here.
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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?

Here X nos die a year - Bcoz Med Err
Introduced Y
Bcoz of Y save in 18 month

A. Doctors and nurses should be more careful when doing their jobs. WRONG - Doc & nurses have nothing to do with results as nothing was mentioned about their abilities.

B. The campaign saved all of the people who otherwise would have died due to medical error in that time period. WRONG - As 96K die a year and with the help of Y 100K were saved within span of 1.5 Years. That means still some might have died.

C. In the future, no one will die because of medical error. WRONG- As per given facts, still, after introducing Y, few were died.

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. CORRECT.

E. The key changes initiated by the campaign will continue to be implemented in the future. WRONG - Illogical.
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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.


Main CR Qs link - Main link - https://gmatclub.com/forum/cr-qs-600-700 ... 31508.html

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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.

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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.


Main CR Qs link - Main link - https://gmatclub.com/forum/cr-qs-600-700 ... 31508.html

OFFICIAL EXPLANATION



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.

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Why B is incorrect?

• The campaign saved all of the people who otherwise would have died due to medical error in that time period. - the campaign saved 100000 lives who would have died due to medical error - why cant we infer that from below statements.

the campaign estimated more than 100,000 lives were saved as a direct result of the program -
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Why B is incorrect?

• The campaign saved all of the people who otherwise would have died due to medical error in that time period. - the campaign saved 100000 lives who would have died due to medical error - why cant we infer that from below statements.

the campaign estimated more than 100,000 lives were saved as a direct result of the program -

It didn't. 98k people die EVERY YEAR. The campaign saved 100k over 18 months. It is likely that given the figures, around 150k people die in 18 months due to medical error. The campaign saved more than 100k. This doesn't mean that it saved ALL.
Hence B is not correct.
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