A Patient Being Treated for GERD Has Increased Risk for Development

question 24

Multiple Choice

A patient being treated for GERD has increased risk for development of infection with Clostridium difficile. The nurse would include which information in this patient's teaching?

• A) Report any episode of diarrhea.
• B) Treat diarrhea with over-the-counter antidiarrheal drugs.
• C) Increase intake of active culture yogurt.
• D) Avoid fatty foods.
• E) Increase fluid intake.

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Definitions:

One-Tail P-Value

The probability, in hypothesis testing, of observing a test statistic as extreme as, or more extreme than, the value observed under the assumption that the null hypothesis is true, in one direction.

Two-Tail Test

A statistical test in which the critical area of a distribution is two-sided and tests whether a sample is greater than or less than a certain range of values.

Critical Values

Specific points on the scale of a statistical distribution that are associated with a specified significance level, used for hypothesis testing.

Rejection Regions

Specific areas in the distribution of a test statistic that, if the observed test statistic falls within, will lead to the rejection of the null hypothesis.