When Educating Patients Who Are Starting on Inhaled Corticosteroids,the Provider

question 1

Multiple Choice

When educating patients who are starting on inhaled corticosteroids,the provider should include:

• A) They need to get any live vaccines before starting the medication.
• B) Inhaled corticosteroids need to be used daily during asthma exacerbations to be effective.
• C) Patients should rinse their mouths out after using the inhaled corticosteroid to prevent thrush.
• D) They can triple the dose number of inhalations of medication during colds to prevent needing systemic steroids.

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Definitions:

Degrees of Freedom

The number of independent values or quantities which can be assigned to a statistical distribution, affecting the shape of the distribution.

Chi-Squared Critical Value

A point on the chi-squared distribution that is associated with a specified level of significance, used in hypothesis testing.

Degrees of Freedom

The count of autonomous variables or numbers that can be linked to a statistical distribution.

Standard Deviations

Measures of the amount of variation or dispersion of a set of values, indicating how spread out the values are from the mean.