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Diagnostic Medicine Cumulative Questions And Answers Latest Update
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Diagnostic Medicine Cumulative Questions And Answers Latest Update
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Diagnostic Medicine CumulativeQuestions And Answers Latest
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Age, recreational drug use, and infections are examples of: ANS✔✔ Patient
risk factors
Patient preparation and patient history are examples of: ANS✔✔ Pretest
phase of the diagnostic testing model
The subjective observations by patient regarding their condition are known as
symptoms. ANS✔✔ True
A sign that is predictive of disease is: ANS✔✔ Prognostic
The rate at which deaths occur in a given population is defined as: ANS✔✔
Mortality
The maintenance of relatively stable internal physiological conditions is:
ANS✔✔ Homeostasis
Factors that affect reference ranges (normal values) include:
- The location of testing
- The method used for analysis
- The types of patients being tested
,- All of the above ANS✔✔ All of the above
Normal ranges for diagnostic tests can vary from lab to lab ANS✔✔ True
Which of the following is NOT a risk factor.
-Age
-Life style
-Ethnicity
-Eye color ANS✔✔ Eye color
Interviewing a patient regarding the personal and family medical history falls
into the category of: ANS✔✔ pre-test interventions
Acute and chronic are terms related to: ANS✔✔ ?? not pathology of disease
Tests where higher costs are justified based on the type of disease or
population being tested are typically classified as: ANS✔✔ diagnostic
Tests on blood, urine, or body fluids are best classified as: ANS✔✔
biochemical studies
When the prevalence of a disease in a community is high, the predictive value
of positive tests is: ANS✔✔ higher
, When the prevalence of a disease in a community is low the predictive value of
positive tests is: ANS✔✔ lower
Using "Big Data" to identify populations with health risks is termed: ANS✔✔
case finding
As described in class, stress and anxiety, discomfort, radiation exposure,
chemical exposure have the following in common: ANS✔✔ Adverse effects
of screening tests
Wilson's criteria of published and revised by the World Health Organization
are guidelines related to: ANS✔✔ medical screening programs and tests
Screening conducted among risk populations is termed: ANS✔✔ selective
screening
Which of the following is correct regarding predictive value? ANS✔✔ As
prevalence of disease increases, positive predictive value increases
When calculating predictive value the following is correct: ANS✔✔ True
positive and false negative test results = all people with disease
The test validity term related to how well the test is detecting non-diseased
individuals as not having disease is: ANS✔✔ specificity
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