Which of the Following Is Not Needed When Describing a Patient's

question 33

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is not needed when describing a patient's chief complaint?

• A) Remedies the patient has tried to relieve symptoms
• B) The duration of pain
• C) The time when symptoms were first noticed
• D) How many family members are healthy

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Definitions:

Standard Deviation

A quantification of the scope of dispersion or difference among a set of numerical values.

Tips

Voluntary payments given for services rendered, often in the hospitality industry, or advice and suggestions offered to help or inform.

Skewed Distribution

A representation of data that is not symmetric and where one tail of the distribution is longer or fatter than the other.

Standard Deviation

A measure of the amount of variation or dispersion of a set of values, indicating how much the values in a data set differ from the mean.