Patient Noncompliance Regarding Use of NSAIDs for Bone and Joint

question 5

Multiple Choice

Patient noncompliance regarding use of NSAIDs for bone and joint disorders is a significant cause of medication ineffectiveness.What is one possible explanation for this noncompliance?

• A)NSAIDs often leave an unpleasant bitter aftertaste that may affect a patient's ability to properly appreciate the taste of food.
• B)Once a patient begins to take NSAIDs,it may take up to 2 weeks to see improvement in arthritis symptoms.
• C)NSAIDs often cause moderate lethargy in patients,decreasing their daily productivity.
• D)Patients who initiate a course of NSAIDs may be afraid that they will gain an excessive amount of weight due to water retention (predominantly women).

Understand the concept of the uniform distribution and its probability density function (PDF).

Calculate probabilities for continuous uniform distributions.

Identify characteristics of continuous versus discrete distributions.

Understand how to standardize a random variable and the meaning of Z-scores.

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