Use Critical Thinking to Select the Drug of Choice for the Treatment

question 20

Multiple Choice

Use critical thinking to select the drug of choice for the treatment of constipation in a patient who is taking opioid-based analgesics for the relief of pain following extensive back surgery.

• A) Lubiprostone
• B) Lactulose
• C) Methylnaltrexone bromide
• D) Polycarbophil

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Definitions:

Class Intervals

Ranges of values in a dataset that are used to group the data into classes for frequency distribution analysis.

Absolute Class Frequency

The number of data points in a dataset that belong to a specific category without considering any relative measures.

Relative Class Frequency

The proportion of observations within a statistical data class compared to the total number of observations.

Observations

The individual data points or measured instances collected during a study or experiment.