NURSING EXAM QUESTIONS
TOXICOLOGY
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Question
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What epidemiological term describes the likelihood that someone will become infected or will develop a condition?
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incidence
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risk
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monitoring
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mortality
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -What is incidence? Incidence is a measure of disease that allows us to determine a person’s probability of being diagnosed with a disease during a given period of time.
Detailed explanation-2: -Three major types of epidemiologic studies are cohort, case-control, and cross-sectional studies (study designs are discussed in more detail in IOM, 2000).
Detailed explanation-3: -Descriptive epidemiology uses observational studies of the distribution of disease in terms of person, place, and time. The study describes the distribution of a set of variables, without regard to causal or other hypotheses. Personal factors include age, gender, SES, educational level, ethnicity, and occupation.
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