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by *arch* » Wed Aug 27, 2008 9:21 pm
Can someone plz help me with this CR.. I found it a bit confusing! Thanks a lot.

Lists of hospitals have been compiled showing which hospitals have patient death rates exceeding the national average. The data have been adjusted to allow for differences in the ages of patients.

Each of the following, if true, provides a good logical ground for hospitals to object to interpreting rank on these lists as one of the indices of the quality of hospital care EXCEPT:

(A) Rank order might indicate insignificant differences, rather than large differences, in numbers of patient deaths.

(B) Hospitals that keep patients longer are likely to have higher death rates than those that discharge patients earlier but do not record deaths of patients at home after discharge.

(C) Patients who are very old on admission to a hospital are less likely than younger patients to survive the same types of illnesses or surgical procedures.

(D) Some hospitals serve a larger proportion of low-income patients, who tend to be more seriously ill when admitted to a hospital.

(E) For-profit hospitals sometimes do not provide intensive-care units and other expensive services for very sick patients but refer or transfer such patients to other hospitals.
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by stubbornp » Thu Aug 28, 2008 12:54 am
B or C
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by parallel_chase » Thu Aug 28, 2008 12:57 am
I would go for C.
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by s_kaks » Thu Aug 28, 2008 1:24 am
IMO C

statement says data has been adjusted for difference in ages
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by pkamoako » Thu Aug 28, 2008 10:42 am
I will go for C because it compensates for the age differences
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by *arch* » Sat Aug 30, 2008 10:40 pm
The OA is (C).
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by James_83 » Sat Aug 30, 2008 11:25 pm
Lists of hospitals have been compiled showing which hospitals have patient death rates exceeding the national average. The data have been adjusted to allow for differences in the ages of patients.

Each of the following, if true, provides a good logical ground for hospitals to object to interpreting rank on these lists as one of the indices of the quality of hospital care EXCEPT:

(A) Rank order might indicate insignificant differences, rather than large differences, in numbers of patient deaths.

(B) Hospitals that keep patients longer are likely to have higher death rates than those that discharge patients earlier but do not record deaths of patients at home after discharge.

(C) Patients who are very old on admission to a hospital are less likely than younger patients to survive the same types of illnesses or surgical procedures.

(D) Some hospitals serve a larger proportion of low-income patients, who tend to be more seriously ill when admitted to a hospital.

(E) For-profit hospitals sometimes do not provide intensive-care units and other expensive services for very sick patients but refer or transfer such patients to other hospitals.
In this CR, we have to eliminate those options for which hospitals can object to the ranking.

A ->> clearly makes the point for objection
B ->> few hospitals can bring this point that a few hospitals are not maintaining the records of the patients who would die at home. So, this may lead to some biasing in the ranking. Therefore, based on this concept, hospitatls can object.
C ->>I think that this point is valid for all the hospitals and none of the hospitals have any point to make out of this.
D,E ->>I think these are clearly stated.

any comments?
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by NSNguyen » Sat Sep 06, 2008 9:20 pm
This is an except question.
A, out of scope.
B, time keeping the patient does not related to survival of patient.
C, this reveals gap in the adjusted.
D, E, some hospitals do not apply for all
IMO: C
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by peter.p.81 » Wed May 11, 2016 2:19 am
Guys can anyone give a decent reason why C is not right.
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