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The Department of Health in Western Australia Wanted to Study

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The Department of Health in Western Australia wanted to study malpractice litigation in Western Australia.A sample of 31,000 medical records was drawn from a population of 850,000 patients who were discharged during the year 2011.The proportion of malpractice claims filed from the sample of 31,000 patients is a ________.


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Lewis Terman

An American psychologist best known for his work in intelligence testing and for initiating the longitudinal study of gifted children.

Longitudinal Study

A research method in which data is collected from the same subjects repeatedly over a period of time, often many years.

Optimistic Explanatory Style

Refers to a manner of explaining life events in a positive light, attributing good outcomes to personal abilities and bad outcomes to external factors.

Pessimistic Explanatory Style

The inclination to ascribe adverse occurrences to constant, inherent, and widespread factors.

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