Your State Regulations Require Records to Be Kept for a Statute

question 489

Multiple Choice

Your state regulations require records to be kept for a statute of limitations period of 7 years. Federal law requires records to be retained for 5 years. The minimum retention period for health records in your facility should be

• A) 5 years.
• B) 7 years.
• C) 10 years.
• D) either 5 or 7 years, as determined by

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Definitions:

pKa

A quantitative measure of the strength of an acid in solution, reflecting its dissociation into a proton and an anion.

Bell Shaped Distribution

A type of distribution which is symmetric and has its peak in the middle, commonly associated with the normal distribution.

Standard Deviation

A measure of the dispersion or variability in a dataset, indicating how much the values in the set deviate from the mean.

Mean

The arithmetic average of a set of numbers, calculated by adding all the values together and dividing by the number of values.