A Patient with a Suspected Clostridium Difficile Infection Is Tested

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Essay

A patient with a suspected Clostridium difficile infection is tested using a point-of-care (POC)rapid diagnostic test.List two disadvantages of using a POC rapid test to identify this disease.

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ParseInt

A method in Java that converts a string into an integer value, throwing an exception if the string cannot be converted.

Exception Object

An instance of or an object that represents an error or an exceptional event that disrupts the normal flow of a program's execution.

Throw Exception

A statement used in many programming languages to signal the occurrence of an unexpected or error condition.

Checked Exception

A type of exception in Java that must be either caught or declared in the method's throws clause.