Why Should a Recording in the Medical Record Never Be

question 55

Multiple Choice

Why should a recording in the medical record never be erased or obliterated?

• A)It makes it harder to read the chart.
• B)The patient may not receive the proper care.
• C)Credibility is reduced if the physician is involved in litigation.
• D)It indicates the procedure was performed incorrectly.

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Definitions:

Critical Value

A threshold value that the test statistic must exceed in order to reject the null hypothesis in a statistical test.

Independent Variables

Variables in a study or model that are expected to influence or determine the outcome of the dependent variable(s), manipulated by the experimenter.

Degrees Of Freedom

The number of independent pieces of information in a dataset used in the calculation of a statistic, typically influencing the shape of various distributions.