Although Hospitals Are Not Generally Responsible for Informing Patients as to the Risks

question 2

Multiple Choice

Although hospitals are not generally responsible for informing patients as to the risks, benefits, and alternatives to specific procedures, hospitals __________.

• A) always have a duty to provide patients with informed consent, especially in complicate surgical cases
• B) in some cases owe a duty to provide patients with informed consent.
• C) never in any situation never a duty to provide a patient with informed consent
• D) must delegate the need for informed consent to the nursing staff

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Definitions:

Sample

A selected subset of individuals or items from a larger population used to estimate characteristics of the whole population.

Sampling Error

The error caused by observing a sample instead of the whole population, leading to potential differences between the sample statistic and population parameter.

Population Mean

The average of all the data points in a population.

Simple Random Samples

A sampling method in which every individual or item from a population has an equal chance of being selected.