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Reading
Comprehension
锛堝叡
15
灏忛
,
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30.0
鍒嗭級
There
are
serval
passages
in this part. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished
statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and
D.
You
should
decide
on
the
best
choice
and
mark
the
corresponding
letter
on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the center.
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1
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Adverse (
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) drug reactions may cause the deaths of over 100,000 US
hospital patients each year, making them a leading cause of death
nationwide,
according
to
a
report
in
the Journal
of
the
American
Medical
Association.
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The
incidence
(
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)
of
serious
and
fatal
adverse
drug
reactions
(ADRs)
in
US
hospitals
was
found
to
be
extremely high,
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say
researchers
at
the
University of Toronto in Ontario, Canada.
They carried out an analysis of 39 ADR-related studies at US hospitals
over the past 30 years and defined an ADR as
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any harmful, unintended,
and
undesired
effect
of
a
drug
which
occurs
at
doses
(
鍓傞噺
)
used
in
humans
for medical treatment.
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.
An
average
6.7%
of
all
hospitalized
patients
experience
an
ADR
every
year,
according to the researchers. They estimate that
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in 1994, overall
2,216,000 hospitalized patients had serious ADRs, and 106,000 had fatal
ADRs.
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This
means
that
ADRs
may
rank
as the
fourth
single
largest
cause
of death in America..
The
control
of
ADRs
also
means
spending
more
money.
One
US
study
estimated
the overall cost of treating ADRs at up to $4 billion per year.
Dr.
David
Bates
of
Brigham
and
Women
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s
Hospital
in
Boston,
Massachusetts,
believes
that
healthcare
workers
need
to
pay
more
attention
to
the
problem,
especially since many ADRs are easily preventable.
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When a patient
develops an allergy (
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) or sensitivity, it is often not recorded,
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Bates
notes,
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and
patients
receive
drug
to
which
they
have
known
allergies
or sensitivities with disturbing frequency.
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He believes special
computerized systems
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still work-in-progress at many of the nation
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s hospitals
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should help cut down the frequency of these types of
errors.
Who wrote the reporter in the American journal?
A The American Medical Association.
B Brigham and Women
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s Hospital in Boston.
C Doctors at an American hospital