As Part of Your Medical Internship, You Are Responsible for Educating

question 64

Multiple Choice

As part of your medical internship, you are responsible for educating pregnant women with AIDS. You tell them that they can reduce the risk of transmission to their unborn child by

• A) continuing with their prescription drug therapy.
• B) discontinuing their intravenous drug use.
• C) obtaining a complete blood transfusion.
• D) remaining in the hospital during their pregnancy.

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Definitions:

Modality

The particular mode in which something exists or is experienced or expressed.

Variability

The extent to which data points in a statistical distribution or data set diverge from the average or mean.

Normal Distribution

A symmetrical, bell-shaped distribution of data where most of the observations cluster around the central peak and probabilities for values taper off equally on both sides.

Standard Normal Distribution

A specific probability distribution that has a mean of zero and a standard deviation of one, representing a normal distribution.