Short Case-Study Questions

question 8

Multiple Choice

Short Case-Study Questions  
Sixty-four-year-old Jeffery Thomson has been diagnosed with esophageal cancer. He has experienced a 20-lb weight loss in the past 2 months due to decreased appetite and difficulty eating. He will begin cancer treatment in a week and is visiting with the registered dietitian for nutrition counseling.
-Possible dietary interventions to better meet Mr. Thomson's nutritional needs include ____.

• A) serving large portions
• B) tube feeding
• C) a bland diet
• D) a high-kcalorie, high-protein diet

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Definitions:

Percentile

A measure used in statistics to indicate the value below which a given percentage of observations in a group of observations falls.

Measures of Dispersion

Statistical indicators that describe the spread or variability of a data set.

Mode

The value that appears most frequently in a given set of data.

Range

The difference between the highest and lowest values in a dataset, providing a measure of data dispersion.