Which question has the most potential for exploring a patient’s cultural beliefs related to a health problem?

You are palpating a patient’s thyroid and find that it’s broadest dimension measures 4 cm.  The right lobe is 25% larger than the left and measures 4 cm.  This data indicates:

Your first patient reports an increase in her alcohol intake over the past 5 years. You plan to use a screening questionnaire for problem drinking/alcoholism to determine if a more complete assessment is needed.   You would use the:

The Mini Mental State Exam (MMSE) is a standard screening tool that is used to estimate cognitive function quantitively or to document cognitive changes serially. It is most often used with elderly patients. Which of the following statements is true:

Subjective data is information that comes from opinions, perceptions or experiences. Subjective and symptomatic data are:

The number of lymph nodes may dimmish and size may decrease with advanced age. The ability to resist infection decreases in elderly people because the lymphatic nodes become more:

You are examining a 79-year-old patient with the diagnosis of diabetes mellitus.  He is describing the symptoms of claudication that he experiences while he is walking.  Which of the following physical finding is consistent with the diagnosis of arterial insufficiency?

Given the graph of the exponential function shown below, which of the following statements must be true?

In a recent year, one of the post offices in a region handled approximately 0.527 of the region’s card and letter mail volume.  Write this decimal as a percent.

Write the ratio as a fraction in simplest form. 912 magazines to 18 magazines