What Is the Most Accurate Way to Characterize the Outcomes

question 60

Multiple Choice

What is the most accurate way to characterize the outcomes of hospital medication errors in the United States?​

• A) ​They cause more illness in patients but not more deaths.
• B) ​They cause more deaths of patients but not more illness.
• C) ​They cause longer hospitalization duration but not costs.
• D) ​They cause more illness, death, and hospitalization costs.

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Definitions:

Positive Feedback Cycle

A process where the end products of an action cause more of that action to occur in a feedback loop, amplifying the original action.

Sodium-Potassium Exchange Pump

A membrane-bound enzyme complex that pumps sodium out of cells while pumping potassium into cells, crucial for maintaining cellular concentration and electrical gradients.

Afterpotential

The transient changes in membrane potential that follow an action potential, including hyperpolarization or depolarization phases, affecting neuron's firing rate.

Depolarization

A change in a cell's membrane potential, making it more positive, and is an essential process in the initiation of action potentials in neurons.