Expression of IdeasHardExplaining a result with its cause
Expression of Ideas practice question
While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes:
- A hospital introduced a checklist for surgeons in 2019.
- The checklist takes two minutes before each operation.
- Infections after surgery fell by a third in the following year.
- Surgeons had at first objected to the checklist as unnecessary.
The student wants to present the checklist's effect and note the initial resistance to it.
Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?
- A. Although surgeons at first objected to the two-minute checklist as unnecessary, infections after surgery fell by a third in the year after it was introduced in 2019.Correct
- B. The checklist takes two minutes.
- C. Infections after surgery fell by a third.
- D. Surgeons objected to the checklist.
Answer: A. Although surgeons at first objected to the two-minute checklist as unnecessary, infections after surgery fell by a third in the year after it was introduced in 2019.
Resistance, then the result.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. The checklist takes two minutes.
- A detail.
- C. Infections after surgery fell by a third.
- The result without the resistance.
- D. Surgeons objected to the checklist.
- The resistance without the result.
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