You Are Caring for a Patient Who Is Complaining of Chills

question 19

Multiple Choice

You are caring for a patient who is complaining of chills, fever, night sweats, sudden weight loss, and hemoptysis. You suspect:

• A) AIDS.
• B) hepatitis B virus.
• C) tuberculosis.
• D) Ebola virus disease (EVD).

---

Definitions:

Scale Items

Individual questions or statements in a survey or questionnaire that are scored to measure a particular construct or variable.

Readability

The ease with which text can be read and understood by its intended audience.

Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA)

A statistical technique used to identify underlying variables, or factors, that explain the pattern of correlations among measured variables.

Factor Structure

The way in which the underlying variables or factors are organized and interrelated within a set of observed data.