You Can Help Prevent Lawsuits by ____

question 64

Multiple Choice

You can help prevent lawsuits by ____.

• A) telling the patients how billing will be handled only after treatment is complete
• B) being a good listener
• C) always being upbeat and optimistic about the patient's prognosis
• D) explaining in detail what went wrong if an error was made during patient treatment
• E) demanding that patients sign a document that releases your practice from culpability

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Definitions:

Sample Variance

A metric indicating the spread or variation in a set of sample data, determined by dividing the sum of the squared differences from the mean by the total number of data points minus one.

Sample Variance

A measurement of the spread between numbers in a data sample, calculated by taking the mean of the squared deviations from the sample mean.

Squared Deviations

The squared differences between each observation and the mean, used in the calculation of variance.

Deviations Squared

The squares of the differences between individual data points and the mean of those points, used in calculating variance.