A Urine Specimen with a PH of 9

question 23

Multiple Choice

A urine specimen with a pH of 9.0 indicates that the patient should be:

• A) Tested further for metabolic or respiratory alkalosis
• B) Changed to a high meat diet to lower the pH
• C) Placed on medication to lower the pH
• D) Asked to collect a new specimen

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Definitions:

Interval Length

Interval length refers to the distance or difference between the lower and upper boundaries of an interval in mathematics or statistics.

Bootstrap Interval

A type of statistical interval estimate used to estimate the distribution of a statistic by resampling with replacement from the data.

BCa Interval

Bias-Corrected and accelerated interval, a type of confidence interval used in statistics to provide a range that is likely to contain the true population parameter, accounting for bias and skewness in the bootstrap distribution.

Bootstrap Distribution

A method in statistics for estimating the sampling distribution of an estimator by resampling with replacement from the original sample.