A Client Is Admitted with Multiple Fractures from a Motor

question 5

Multiple Choice

A client is admitted with multiple fractures from a motor vehicle crash (MVC) .Which of the client's previous or concurrent health problems is most likely to increase the client's risk for hypophosphatemia?

• A) Chronic alcoholic pancreatitis
• B) 50-pack-year smoking history
• C) Prostate cancer history
• D) Heart surgery 8 years ago

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Definitions:

Numerical

Pertaining to numbers, often used to describe data or methods that involve the manipulation or analysis of numbers.

Sample Space

The collection of every potential result that can occur from a statistical experiment.

Event

An outcome or set of outcomes within a sample space; something that can occur in an experiment.

Conditional Probability

The likelihood that one event happens assuming a different event has already taken place.