A Physician Writes the Abbreviated Order,DAT

question 13

Multiple Choice

A physician writes the abbreviated order,DAT.What does it mean?

• A)Discharge assessment today
• B)Do not ambulate today
• C)Diet as tolerated
• D)Daily activity as tolerated

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Definitions:

Confidence Interval

An estimate indicating the range within which a population parameter is likely to lie, with a certain degree of certainty, based on data from a smaller sample.

Margin of Error

An expression of the amount of random sampling error in survey results, indicating a range within which the true population parameter is expected to lie.

Sample Size

The number of individual observations or data points collected and used in a statistical analysis.

Surgical Site Infections

Post-surgical infections that arise in the area operated on.