The Nurse Determines That the Client Is Most at Risk

question 29

Multiple Choice

The nurse determines that the client is most at risk for renal toxicity while receiving an aminoglycoside anti-infective when which diagnostic lab result is abnormal?

• A)Kidney function test
• B)White blood cell count
• C)Liver function test
• D)Platelet count

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Definitions:

Coefficient of Determination

A statistical measure represented by R^2 that indicates the proportion of the variance in the dependent variable predictable from the independent variable(s).

Sum of Squares for Error

The sum of the squared differences between the observed value and the estimated value of the parameter of interest, used as a measure of variation within a dataset.

Sum of Squares for Regression

The sum of squares for regression quantifies the variation explained by the regression model, comparing the fitted values against the mean of the dependent variable.

SSR

Stands for Sum of Squares due to Regression, which measures the variation explained by the regression line in the context of statistical analysis.