If an Adverse Reaction Occurs During the Use of a Drug

question 40

True/False

If an adverse reaction occurs during the use of a drug, documentation in the medical record is necessary to provide the physician with the information needed to report the reaction to the appropriate agencies.

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Definitions:

Non-directional Null Hypothesis

A type of null hypothesis that specifies there will be no change or difference without stating a direction of change.

Standard Error

A statistical measure that quantifies the amount of variability in a sample mean compared to the population mean, used to gauge the precision of the sample mean.

Sampling Distribution

A statistical distribution of all possible samples' statistics taken from a population.

Probability

A measure of the likelihood of a given event occurring, expressed as a number between 0 (impossible) and 1 (certain).