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on: Jul 8, 2018
The public health nursing student is studying outbreak investigations and disease trends. The student learns that the disease that has seen an increase in the last 30 years after a decline in the 1970s is
 
  A. West Nile virus
  B. H1N1 virus
  C. Influenza
  D. Pertussis

Question 2

A control or no disease group is needed for study of oral cancer. The nurses conducting the study decide to use a group of patients with skin cancer because these patients are at the same facility,
 
  and the likelihood of developing oral cancer with skin cancer is low. However, this variable could still cause the disease being studied, as well as potential limitations in the study. This variable would be called a(n)
  A. Confounder
  B. Right censoring
  C. Case-control
  D. Odds ratio
 
  ANS: A


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Reply #1 on: Jul 8, 2018
Answer to Question 1

ANS: D

Answer to Question 2

ANS: A


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