Policies and Procedures Used to Reduce the Chances a Patient

question 6

Multiple Choice

Policies and procedures used to reduce the chances a patient will file legal action against the oral health care team is known as:

• A) code of ethics.
• B) risk management.
• C) standards protocol.
• D) radiation health and safety.

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Definitions:

Standard Deviation

A measure of the dispersion or spread of a set of data points relative to its mean, indicating how much the values in the data set vary from the average.

Normally Distributed

Describes a data set whose distribution forms a symmetric, bell-shaped curve around the mean.

Top 10%

A term used to denote the upper 10 percentile of a data set or distribution, representing values higher than 90% of the others.

Hypothesized Population Mean

A specific value that represents the average outcome we propose or expect for a population in hypothesis testing.