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phuluong2k
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01/18/05 - 02:08 PM

To assess the impact of sleep hours on patient care, 1000 1st & 2nd residents was follow over a one year period

During this period, hours of sleep per night was recored on a weekly basis medical errors and medical errors that cause adverse events was also recored for the same period of time, the result of this study showing the percentage of residents involved in reported errors and adverse events plotted by average hours of sleep per night, are presented

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What is the relative chane that, within one year of period, a resident will make a medical errors resulting an adverse event if he or she averages less than 4 hours of sleep a night compared with 4 to 5 hours of sleep per night

A. 0,25
B. 0,50
C. 1,3
D. 2
E. 2,7
F. 3,2
G. 4,1

Xris
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03/17/05 - 02:51 PM

I'd say D, is the ratio of adverse events

netlover
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03/24/05 - 03:07 PM

"Xris" wrote:
I'd say D, is the ratio of adverse events

U R right. 10.7/5.7 is about 2, which is the closest ratio from the given answer.

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03/25/05 - 03:52 AM

You got it

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