Nosocomial Infections Involve All the Following Except

question 31

Multiple Choice

Nosocomial infections involve all the following except

• A)they are only transmitted by medical personnel.
• B)they often involve the patient's urinary tract and surgical incisions.
• C)the patient's resident biota can be the infectious agent.
• D)Escherichia coli and staphylococci are common infectious agents.
• E)medical and surgical asepsis help lower their occurrence.

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Definitions:

Inferential Statistics

Set of statistical analyses used to draw inferences from a smaller group of data (sample) that then can be applied to a larger group (population).

Correlations

A statistical measure that indicates the extent to which two or more variables fluctuate together, showing the strength and direction of a relationship between variables.

Hypothesis Testing

A statistical method used to determine whether there is enough evidence in a sample of data to infer that a certain condition holds for the entire population.

Standard Deviation

A statistical measure that quantifies the dispersion or variability of a set of numerical data from its mean, indicating how spread out the data points are.