Case Studies Eighty-Year-Old Antonio Hernandez Has a Past Medical History of Hypertension

question 42

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Case Studies
Eighty-year-old Antonio Hernandez has a past medical history of hypertension, elevated cholesterol, and diabetes.He suffers a massive stroke and is stabilized in the CCU (coronary care unit) .It is determined that it is unsafe to feed him orally and a tube feeding will be started immediately.
-For the first 24 hours the tube feeding should be delivered by a(n) _____ feeding method.

• A)continuous
• B)daily
• C)intermittent
• D)bolus

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Standardized Test Statistic

A calculated value from sample data that has been transformed to conform to a standard scale, used in hypothesis testing to determine how far a sample statistic differs from what is expected under the null hypothesis.

Matched Pairs

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Population of Differences

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Paired-Difference T-Test

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