A Woman Has Had Persistent Lochia Rubra for Two Weeks

question 24

Multiple Choice

A woman has had persistent lochia rubra for two weeks since her delivery and is experiencing pelvic discomfort. When subinvolution is diagnosed, the nurse explains that the usual treatment for this disorder is:

• A) Uterine massage
• B) Pitocin infusion
• C) Dilation and curettage
• D) Hysterectomy

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Definitions:

Proportions

Statistical measures that express the relationship of a part to the whole, often represented as a fraction or percentage.

Two-Sample Tests

Statistical tests used to compare the means or proportions of two independent or unrelated groups.

Equality of Variances

A condition in statistics where different samples have similar variances, important in certain statistical tests, like the ANOVA test.

Independent Samples T-Test

A statistical test used to compare the means from two different groups of samples to see if there is a significant difference between them.