A Patient Will Be Taking a 2-Week Course of Combination

question 9

Multiple Choice

A patient will be taking a 2-week course of combination therapy with omeprazole (Prilosec) and another drug for a peptic ulcer caused by Helicobacter pylori. The nurse expects a drug from which class to be ordered with the omeprazole?

• A) Antibiotic
• B) Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug
• C) Antacid
• D) Antiemetic

---

Definitions:

Hypothesis Test

A procedure for testing a hypothesis about a parameter in a population, using data measured in a sample.

Population Variance

A statistical measure that calculates the variance of the entire population, representing the average of the squared differences from the population mean.

Significance Level

The threshold below which a test statistic's p-value must fall for an effect to be considered statistically significant.

Sampling Distribution

A statistical distribution of all possible sample means or sample proportions calculated from all possible samples of a specific size from a population.