A Medical Office Assistant May Handle All of the Following

question 54

Multiple Choice

A medical office assistant may handle all of the following duties in a medical office EXCEPT:

• A) scheduling appointments.
• B) compiling and recording medical records.
• C) interpreting laboratory test results.
• D) answering telephones.

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Definitions:

Linear Regression

A calculation of the value of one variable given the value of another. Linear regression assumes that the relationship between variables is linear. See also regression.

Inferential Statistics

The branch of statistics that allows one to make predictions or inferences about a population based on a sample of data.

Type II Error

Deciding wrongly that there was no significant result when in fact there was.

Interval and Ratio

Levels of measurement in statistics where interval data has no true zero point and ratio data has a meaningful zero, allowing for comparison of ratios.