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A nurse is assessing a newborn who is about forty-five minutes old. The nurse would expect this newborn to exhibit which behavior? 

How long would you estimate you studied for the exam (total time in hours)?    0-5 hours total      5-10 hours total      10-20 hours total      20+ hours  

Match the type of contraceptive with the correct definition

One way to make your screening program more cost effective is to (select best answer):

A screening test has a sensitivity of 0.75.  Is this a good screening test?

In evaluating a screening test, “sensitivity” is: 

Policies, procedures, and threshold levels of a screening test should be determined in advance to establish who should be referred for further testing, diagnostics and possible treatment. Once these are determined in at least one study population, the screening test can be administered on any population in the world.

Prior to developing a health promotion program, researchers would like to determine the prevalence and characteristics of binge drinking in Wood County, Wisconsin. What study design should they use?

When conducting a Meta-Analysis, researchers sometimes evaluate studies that were not published as well as those that were published.  This is to avoid recall bias.

Researchers at the Novo Nordisk Pharmaceutical Company are interested in determining the effectiveness of a new (untested) long-acting insulin for type 1 diabetes treatment. What type of study design should they use?