Which of the Following Data Elements Is NOT Likely to Appear

question 39

Multiple Choice

Which of the following data elements is NOT likely to appear on an acute care admission record?

• A) Patient's religion
• B) Patient's date of birth
• C) Name of the patient's spouse
• D) Tobacco use by the patient

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Definitions:

Test Power

The probability that a statistical test will correctly reject a false null hypothesis, essentially the ability of a test to detect an effect if there is one.

Conditional Probabilities

are the probabilities of an event occurring given that another event has already occurred.

Type Errors

Errors made in hypothesis testing where Type I error is rejecting a true null hypothesis, and Type II error is failing to reject a false null hypothesis.

Type I Error

The statistical error that occurs when the null hypothesis is incorrectly rejected when it is actually true.