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Texas Mold Remediation Contractor State Exam Latest (This is a study guide for the Texas Mold State Exam. Contains) Questions With 100% CORRECT ANSWERs.
Question 1: In conversations with her patients, a physical
therapist notices that patients who are on Workman's Compensation and have supportive supervisors, eager for them to return to work, have more positive outcomes in rehabilitation than those patients whose supervisors have a negative attitude
toward their employee's injury: insisting they not return to work
until they are at 100% because if anything less they are "useless to the job". What type of test could the therapist use to see if these two factors have a measurable relationship?
CORRECT ANSWER : Linear regression
Question 2: Data analysts at a large metropolitan hospital need
to determine risk factors associated with readmission within 30 days via the hospital's emergency room among patients with COPD. The variables of interest include age, gender, race/ethnicity, insurance status, and family support. Which statistical technique should be used?
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CORRECT ANSWER : Regression analysis
Question 3: Several community health centers across a rural
state are gathering data on their pre-diabetic patients and using A1c levels as a baseline measurement to include patients in a research project. Three different interventions will be applied.One group of patients will receive a special diet to follow; the second group will work with physical therapists on a regular exercise program; the third group will follow the diet and engage in the exercise. Which statistical test will be appropriate to use to determine which treatment is most effective in controlling pre-diabetes?
CORRECT ANSWER : ANOVA
Question 4: A hospital CFO is analyzing the cost benefits of
using the patient reminder system, which was implemented over a year ago, to see if the automated system results in less missed appointments ("no-shows"). She is comparing quarterly reports from this past year on volume of patients who did not show up to their appointments, to the volume of patients of the previous year, who did not show up to their appointments, to see if the automated system has proven effective. She is considering other
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variables as she reviews the data, but is primarily analyzing the number of "no-show" patients from last year's quarterly reports to this year's.
CORRECT ANSWER: time series
Question 5: There are two standard treatments for children with
ADHD who display a specific set of characteristics. One treatment is a cognitive behavioral intervention, and the other is a dietary and biomedical intervention. Both treatments have equally strong clinical evidence supporting their efficacy. A researcher proposes a comparison of the two interventions to determine which is preferable. The children will be randomized
to one of two groups: half of the children will receive the
cognitive behavioral intervention and the other half of the children will receive the dietary and biomedical intervention.Which test is appropriate to determining the preferable treatment?
CORRECT ANSWER : Cross-sectional
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Question 6: The vice president, CMO, and Operations Team
collected data on resources used by patients who have undergone coronary bypass and the length of stays for a defined population of patients who received CABG surgery. Since the raw data is complex to discuss and evaluate, the team will use descriptive statistics to analyze the data to support their decisions for recommendations. Which of the following descriptive statistics could prove the most useful?
CORRECT ANSWER : The mean (average) length of stay and
The mean number of providers seeing each patient each day
Question 7: Operates through CDC; the National Health Care
Surveys are designed to answer key questions of interest to health care policy makers, public health professionals, and researchers.
CORRECT ANSWER : National Healthcare Survey
Question 8: Operates through the CDC: data on birth, death, marriages, divorces, and fetal deaths.