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Your Patient Has Come into the Emergency Department with a Complaint

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Your patient has come into the emergency department with a complaint of centrally located constant pain. What is his most likely problem?


Definitions:

Confounded

A situation in research where the effect of one variable is mixed up with the effect of another, making it difficult to ascertain causality.

Correlated

Being correlated refers to a statistical relationship between two or more variables, where a change in one is associated with a change in the other.

Control Group

In experimental research, a group of subjects that does not receive the treatment being tested, used as a benchmark to measure the effects of the treatment on another group.

Independent Variable

In scientific research, the variable that is manipulated or changed to observe its effect on a dependent variable.

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