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by [email protected] » Thu Feb 02, 2012 3:36 am
One reason that the strength of the Patient Advocacy Association's argument cannot be evaluated is that:


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by Lifetron » Thu Jul 19, 2012 8:07 am
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by Ganesh hatwar » Wed Aug 08, 2012 12:56 am
DanaJ wrote:Source: Veritas Prep

Patient Advocacy Association: In a recent ranking of state hospitals, Hospital A received the lowest overall grade based on a patient mortality rate that was nearly twice that of the top-ranked hospital. Mortality rates in five departments (cardiology, oncology, surgery, neurology, and neonatology) were used in the comparison. Clearly, Hospital A provides the lowest quality of care state-wide in these departments.


One reason that the strength of the Patient Advocacy Association's argument cannot be evaluated is that

(A) The argument makes no mention of deaths of patients seen by multiple departments.

(B) The Patient Advocacy Association has a reputation as a biased third party that does not always objectively weigh the evidence regarding quality of care.

(C) The Patient Advocacy Association has only cited the mortality rate in five departments of the hospitals.

(D) The Patient Advocacy Association has not included data about the underlying health and severity of illness of the individuals served by each of the hospitals.

(E) The Patient Advocacy Association has not included recent trends in mortality rates by hospital.

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by chris558 » Wed Aug 15, 2012 7:16 am
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by surmilsehgal » Sat Aug 18, 2012 3:37 am
answer is D
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by hjafferi » Thu Aug 23, 2012 12:50 am
IMO D
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by thevenus » Wed Sep 05, 2012 3:04 am
the Hospital A gets the most sever cases, the severe patients has less chance to survive ; the mortality rate is hence highest, but the agency has not included this factor and maybe the other hospitals with low mortality rates are not taking care of the patients.
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by rajeshsinghgmat » Sat Feb 23, 2013 1:31 am
D in answer.
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by tarik » Mon Aug 05, 2013 6:17 pm
Answer D
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by pritam.ryders » Tue Aug 06, 2013 1:00 am
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by pritam.ryders » Tue Aug 06, 2013 1:02 am
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by pritam.ryders » Tue Aug 06, 2013 1:03 am
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by abhinavgupta0187 » Tue Aug 06, 2013 10:39 pm
Mortality rate is given by no. of deaths by no. of patients in that hospital. Here, the author is assuming that there are same no. of total patients in different hospitals. So, D only attacks this assumption.
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by ndqv » Fri Oct 04, 2013 7:42 pm
Everyone chose D (Me,too. D resolves the issue more directly, but I think the explanation for C is not clear.

(C) The Patient Advocacy Association has only cited the mortality rate in five departments of the hospitals.

What matters here should be "mortality rate" rather than "five departments". Only the mortality rate cannot stand for the care quality of a hospital => using mortality rate to assess quality is flawed
=> C is a viable answer
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by sahilbilga » Fri Jan 31, 2014 12:07 am
Clearly D......
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